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Second fork sync PR for keenvc/firstmate: bring in four upstream fixes merged since PR #14's sync point (#6192 rebalance portable test groups and packing budget, #6213 stale record on a reassigned slot retires records-only, #6216 run no repository hook when core.hooksPath is empty, #6240 keep the steering doorbell short under deep homes). The user chose: merge PR #14 first, then raise this second small sync. Fork main carries the #11 and #14 syncs as squashes, so the naive history merge base is stale; the merge uses an explicit content merge base b3d4133. Two genuine conflicts (bin/fm-teardown.sh, docs/architecture.md) were 3-way resolved: upstream #6213's records-only code hunk survives, the fork's #13 claim-first semantics and endpoint-cleared behavior are kept, and the overlapping header/doc prose keeps the fork's newer wording. A prior run validated the merge content (teardown suite 27/27, #6192 packing budget verified, #6216 intent verified) and committed a test-fix (probe git before the broken-hooksPath refusal cases) before its test agent hit the Claude session limit; this run resumes from that head.

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M	.agents/skills/bootstrap-diagnostics/SKILL.md
M	.agents/skills/harness-adapters/SKILL.md
M	.agents/skills/harness-adapters/references/harness/agy.md
M	.agents/skills/harness-adapters/references/harness/claude.md
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M	.agents/skills/harness-adapters/references/harness/opencode.md
A	.agents/skills/harness-adapters/references/harness/openhands.md
A	.agents/skills/human-text-discipline/SKILL.md
M	.agents/skills/secondmate-provisioning/SKILL.md
M	.agents/skills/stuck-crewmate-recovery/SKILL.md
M	.github/workflows/ci.yml
M	.gitignore
M	.pi/extensions/lib/fm-calm-visibility.ts
A	.swarm/advisories/init-orphan-recovery.json
A	.swarm/background-delegations-health.json
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/ci-failure-batching/SKILL.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/ci-fix-monitor/SKILL.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/clarify-spec/SKILL.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/clarify/SKILL.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/codebase-review-swarm/INSTALL.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/codebase-review-swarm/README.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/codebase-review-swarm/SKILL.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/codebase-review-swarm/agents/openai.yaml
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/codebase-review-swarm/assets/jsonl-schemas.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/codebase-review-swarm/assets/review-report-template.md
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A	.swarm/bundled-skills/codebase-review-swarm/references/full-v7-source-prompt.md
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A	.swarm/bundled-skills/codebase-review-swarm/scripts/init-review-run.py
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/codebase-review-swarm/scripts/validate-skill-package.py
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A	.swarm/bundled-skills/design-docs/SKILL.md
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A	.swarm/bundled-skills/fork-pr-operations/SKILL.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/gate-attribution/SKILL.md
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A	.swarm/bundled-skills/issue-tracer/references/full-resolution-contract.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/issue-tracer/references/install.md
A	.swarm/bundled-skills/issue-tracer/references/localization-playbook.md
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A	.swarm/bundled-skills/merge-queue-readiness/SKILL.md
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M	AGENTS.md
M	bin/backends/herdr.sh
M	bin/fm-afk-return.sh
M	bin/fm-agent-process-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-backend.sh
M	bin/fm-bootstrap.sh
M	bin/fm-branch-outcome.sh
M	bin/fm-busy-lib.sh
A	bin/fm-claim-lib.sh
A	bin/fm-claim.sh
M	bin/fm-classify-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-composer-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-control-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-crew-state.sh
M	bin/fm-dispatch-resolve.sh
M	bin/fm-dod-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh
M	bin/fm-harness.sh
A	bin/fm-hold-reverify.sh
M	bin/fm-host-mirror.sh
M	bin/fm-pr-lib.sh
A	bin/fm-provider-lib.sh
A	bin/fm-provider-load.sh
M	bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-session-start.sh
M	bin/fm-spawn.sh
M	bin/fm-supervise-daemon.sh
M	bin/fm-supervision-engine-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-supervision-host.sh
M	bin/fm-task-inbox-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-teardown.sh
M	bin/fm-test-run.sh
M	bin/fm-tmux-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-wake-drain.sh
M	bin/fm-wake-lib.sh
M	bin/fm-watch.sh
A	bin/fm-watcher-continuity.sh
M	docs/agent-control.md
M	docs/architecture.md
M	docs/configuration.md
M	docs/documentation-audiences.json
M	docs/examples/crew-dispatch.json
M	docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md
M	docs/herdr-backend.md
M	docs/scripts.md
M	docs/sessionstart-nudge.md
M	docs/tmux-backend.md
M	docs/trace-context.md
M	docs/verification/agy.md
A	docs/verification/cline.md
A	docs/verification/openhands.md
M	docs/verification/runtime-backends.md
M	tests/fixtures.sh
M	tests/fm-agy-signals-live-e2e.test.sh
A	tests/fm-backend-herdr-probe-timeout.test.sh
M	tests/fm-backlog-read-bound.test.sh
M	tests/fm-bootstrap.test.sh
M	tests/fm-brief.test.sh
A	tests/fm-claim.test.sh
A	tests/fm-cline-harness.test.sh
A	tests/fm-cline-signals-live-e2e.test.sh
M	tests/fm-composer-lib.test.sh
M	tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh
M	tests/fm-control.test.sh
M	tests/fm-crew-state.test.sh
M	tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh
M	tests/fm-fleet-snapshot-view.test.sh
M	tests/fm-git-strip-ai-trailers.test.sh
M	tests/fm-harness-precedence.test.sh
A	tests/fm-hold-reverify.test.sh
M	tests/fm-home-summary-refresh.test.sh
A	tests/fm-openhands-harness.test.sh
A	tests/fm-openhands-signals-live-e2e.test.sh
M	tests/fm-pr-check-security.test.sh
A	tests/fm-provider-lane-cap.test.sh
A	tests/fm-quota-wall-live-e2e.test.sh
M	tests/fm-remote-secondmate-lifecycle-e2e.test.sh
M	tests/fm-secondmate-liveness.test.sh
M	tests/fm-session-start.test.sh
M	tests/fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.test.sh
M	tests/fm-teardown-endpoint-safety.test.sh
M	tests/fm-teardown.test.sh
M	tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh
A	tests/fm-watcher-continuity.test.sh

Risk Assessment

✅ Low: The change is a faithful, verified-complete sync of four upstream fixes whose content delta is exactly the 21 expected files, both conflict resolutions leave code and prose consistent, every consumer of the changed launch text and doorbell format was updated, and the new packing refusal and empty-hooksPath branch both behave correctly under a concrete traced case.

Testing

I derived the scenarios from the four upstream fixes named in the intent and drove each against the real scripts rather than relying on suite exit codes. #6240 is the headline result and is proven three independent ways: the real doorbell line drops from 623 to 166 characters and becomes constant across home depth; in a live 80-column tmux pane that is 9 wrapped rows down to 3, which is precisely the wrapping failure the fix cites; and the repo's own live e2e put the new line in front of real agents launched with no brief at all, where claude, opencode and pi each resolved the inbox from $FM_TASK_INBOX, acted, and acknowledged with the mv. I also proved the load-bearing coupling that spawn really exports FM_TASK_INBOX for ship and secondmate launches even under the cleared allowlist. #6216 reproduces as a true regression pair: a real commit with an empty core.hooksPath is refused outright on pre-fix code and succeeds on this branch with the AI trailer stripped, the human trailer kept, and no repository hook run; adversarially, a broken non-empty hooksPath still refuses with HEAD unmoved. #6192 holds at the runner's own CLI, where the nine CI shards form an exact gap-free, duplicate-free partition of the 211-script serial lane with the largest shard inside budget. #6213's behaviour holds through the real teardown CLI, though reverting the adopted hunk leaves the case passing, confirming the redundancy the review round already recorded and declined. Two live harnesses failed: codex and grok never honored the doorbell, but an A/B against the fully reverted pre-sync code shows both fail identically there, and grok's own pane reports its weekly limit is exhausted, so neither is merge fallout and I recorded them as untested rather than guessing. The two fm-test-run failures are likewise the previously recorded host issue, confirmed by checking that the implicated test file is outside this diff and that this host reparents orphans to a systemd subreaper instead of PID 1. This change has no graphical surface, so the reviewer-visible artifacts are terminal captures of the actual pane rendering rather than screenshots. All lab directories were removed and the worktree carries no changes from my testing.

  • Live validation: ✅ go - 10 of 13 scenarios driven live against the product
Scenario Result Live Evidence
#6240 A captain's steering doorbell stays short under a deeply nested Firstmate home: the line a worker receives does not grow with the home's path depth ✅ pass live 6240-doorbell-length.txt - real bin/fm-task-inbox-lib.sh driven at a 25-char and a 236-char state dir, pre-sync vs this branch: 201/623 chars (grows +422) before, 166/166 chars (constant) after
#6240 The doorbell rendered in a real terminal no longer wraps past what a composer read can prove: in a live 80-column tmux pane it occupies 3 rows instead of 9 ✅ pass live 6240-doorbell-live-pane.txt - real tmux 3.4 pane at 80x24 on a private socket, deep home, pre-sync line = 631 chars over 9 wrapped rows, this branch = 166 chars over 3 rows
#6240 A real worker agent, launched with NO brief, follows the new short doorbell: it resolves its inbox from $FM_TASK_INBOX, performs the instructed action, and acknowledges by moving the record to h… ✅ pass live 6240-live-agent-doorbell.txt - tests/fm-send-inbox-doorbell-live-e2e.test.sh with FM_SEND_INBOX_LIVE_E2E=1: claude 2.1.286, opencode v2.0.19 and pi 0.99.1 each acted and acked with the mv
#6240 Every launch hands its agent the absolute steering inbox as FM_TASK_INBOX, including a secondmate and including the cleared launch-env-allowlist environment where an ambient forward would be los… ✅ pass live 6240-spawn-exports-inbox.txt - tests/fm-spawn-compact-adviser-disable.test.sh executes the real emitted launch with a probe binary that prints the variable the agent actually sees; ship and secondmate…
#6240 ADVERSARIAL: the doorbell typed into a pane whose agent has exited (a bare shell) runs nothing, and a hostile or terminal-control inbox name is refused without sending bytes to the pane ✅ pass live 6240-doorbell-live-pane.txt (Enter pressed in the live bare-shell pane: both records untouched, clean prompt, nothing executed) and 6240-task-inbox-suite.txt (hostile-name no-op in sh/bash/zsh, ETX/ES…
#6216 A captain's project with an EMPTY core.hooksPath can still commit: no repository hook runs, as in plain git, and the AI co-author trailer is still stripped while a human co-author survives ✅ pass live 6216-empty-hookspath-commit.txt - real git commit through an installed wrapper: pre-fix exit 1 with HEAD unmoved ('cannot resolve this repository's hooks directory'), this branch exit 0 with the ant…
#6216 ADVERSARIAL: a non-empty but broken core.hooksPath (unresolvable ~user, and valueless) must still REFUSE rather than silently skip the repository's own hook ✅ pass live 6216-adversarial-broken-hookspath.txt - both cases exit 128, HEAD does not move, and the canary repository commit-msg hook never runs; on this host's git 2.43.0 git itself refuses eagerly, which is wh…
#6213 A stale task record whose pool slot was reassigned to another task tears down records-only instead of being refused, and the claimant can then tear down normally afterwards ✅ pass live 6213-teardown-endpoint-safety.txt - the real bin/fm-teardown.sh CLI driven against real records, worktree and slot claims; case 'a stale record on a claimed slot retires, then the claimant tears down'…
#6192 The rebalanced portable lanes still cover every test exactly once and pack inside the budget: the 9 CI serial shards form a gap-free, duplicate-free partition of the serial lane ✅ pass live 6192-shard-partition.txt - bin/fm-test-run.sh --list per shard, set-compared against the full serial lane: 211 = 211, 0 duplicates, 0 gaps; 6192-budget-summary.txt - --check-coverage reports serial_ma…
#6192 ADVERSARIAL: the packing guard accepts a shard at exactly the budget and refuses one millisecond above it, and rejects malformed shard-lane names ✅ pass live 6192-test-run-suite.txt - 'serial packing accepts the exact budget and refuses one millisecond above it' and 'portable serial shard lanes refuse mismatched, out-of-range, and countless names' both pas…
#6240 A real codex worker follows the new short doorbell and acknowledges with the mv ⏸️ untested no The codex CLI on this host never reaches a steerable idle composer ('idle composer never classified empty' before and after the change), so no prompt is answered within the 200s budget. This is a code…
#6240 A real grok worker follows the new short doorbell and acknowledges with the mv ⏸️ untested no The grok account's weekly model quota is exhausted (0% left), so the CLI cannot answer any prompt regardless of the doorbell text. Restore quota or entitlement on that grok account, then re-run `FM_SE…
#6240 A real kimi or muse worker follows the new short doorbell ⏸️ untested no Neither the kimi nor the muse CLI is installed on this host and no repository-local path was supplied, so the e2e correctly skips them. Install those harnesses with working logins to cover these two.
Evidence: #6240 doorbell length vs home depth, pre-sync vs this branch (623 -> 166 chars, now constant)

Source: #6240 doorbell length vs home depth, pre-sync vs this branch (623 -> 166 chars, now constant)

=== #6240 keep the steering doorbell short under deep homes ===
shallow state dir : /tmp/dbell.wu3z3l/s/state (25 chars)
deep    state dir : /tmp/dbell.wu3z3l/d/fleet-home-segment-1/fleet-home-segment-2/fleet-home-segment-3/fleet-home-segment-4/fleet-home-segment-5/fleet-home-segment-6/fleet-home-segment-7/fleet-home-segment-8/fleet-home-segment-9/fleet-home-segment-10/state (236 chars)
depth delta       : 211 chars

--- before (bin-before) ---
shallow: 201 chars | : Firstmate instruction waiting: list '/tmp/dbell.wu3z3l/s/state/t1.inbox'/*.msg and, in numeric order, read and act on each, then mv each handled file to '/tmp/dbell.wu3z3l/s/state/t1.inbox'/handled/.
deep   : 623 chars | : Firstmate instruction waiting: list '/tmp/dbell.wu3z3l/d/fleet-home-segment-1/fleet-home-segment-2/fleet-home-segment-3/fleet-home-segment-4/fleet-home-segment-5/fleet-home-segment-6/fleet-home-segment-7/fleet-home-segment-8/fleet-home-segment-9/fleet-home-segment-10/state/t1.inbox'/*.msg and, in numeric order, read and act on each, then mv each handled file to '/tmp/dbell.wu3z3l/d/fleet-home-segment-1/fleet-home-segment-2/fleet-home-segment-3/fleet-home-segment-4/fleet-home-segment-5/fleet-home-segment-6/fleet-home-segment-7/fleet-home-segment-8/fleet-home-segment-9/fleet-home-segment-10/state/t1.inbox'/handled/.
grows with home depth? YES (+422 chars)

--- after (bin-after) ---
shallow: 166 chars | : Firstmate instruction waiting: list "$FM_TASK_INBOX"/*.msg in your 't1.inbox' steering inbox, read and act on each in numeric order, then mv each into its handled/.
deep   : 166 chars | : Firstmate instruction waiting: list "$FM_TASK_INBOX"/*.msg in your 't1.inbox' steering inbox, read and act on each in numeric order, then mv each into its handled/.
grows with home depth? NO
Evidence: #6240 the doorbell rendered in a LIVE 80-col tmux pane: 9 wrapped rows before vs 3 after, plus dead-pane inertness and $FM_TASK_INBOX resolution

Source: #6240 the doorbell rendered in a LIVE 80-col tmux pane: 9 wrapped rows before vs 3 after, plus dead-pane inertness and $FM_TASK_INBOX resolution

=== #6240 LIVE: real tmux pane, 80x24, deep home ===
deep state dir: 240 chars

--- before : doorbell typed into a live 80-col pane ---
line length 631 chars -> occupies 9 non-empty terminal rows
  | bash-5.2$ : Firstmate instruction waiting: list '/tmp/dbpane.UjD0mk/home/fleet-h
  | ome-segment-1/fleet-home-segment-2/fleet-home-segment-3/fleet-home-segment-4/fle
  | et-home-segment-5/fleet-home-segment-6/fleet-home-segment-7/fleet-home-segment-8
  | /fleet-home-segment-9/fleet-home-segment-10/state/t1.inbox'/*.msg and, in numeri
  | c order, read and act on each, then mv each handled file to '/tmp/dbpane.UjD0mk/
  | home/fleet-home-segment-1/fleet-home-segment-2/fleet-home-segment-3/fleet-home-s
  | egment-4/fleet-home-segment-5/fleet-home-segment-6/fleet-home-segment-7/fleet-ho
  | me-segment-8/fleet-home-segment-9/fleet-home-segment-10/state/t1.inbox'/handled/
  | .

--- after : doorbell typed into a live 80-col pane ---
line length 166 chars -> occupies 3 non-empty terminal rows
  | bash-5.2$ : Firstmate instruction waiting: list "$FM_TASK_INBOX"/*.msg in your '
  | t1.inbox' steering inbox, read and act on each in numeric order, then mv each in
  | to its handled/.

--- adversarial: press Enter in the bare (dead-agent) pane ---
inbox contents after Enter (record must be untouched, nothing executed):
  | 001.msg
  | 002.msg
  | handled
pane after Enter:
  | bash-5.2$ : Firstmate instruction waiting: list "$FM_TASK_INBOX"/*.msg in your '
  | t1.inbox' steering inbox, read and act on each in numeric order, then mv each in
  | to its handled/.
  | bash-5.2$

worker resolves its inbox from $FM_TASK_INBOX in that same pane:
  | -segment-7/fleet-home-segment-8/fleet-home-segment-9/fleet-home-segment-10/state
  | /t1.inbox/002.msg
  | bash-5.2$
Evidence: #6240 LIVE real-agent doorbell e2e: claude, opencode and pi acted and acked with no brief; codex and grok did not

Source: #6240 LIVE real-agent doorbell e2e: claude, opencode and pi acted and acked with no brief; codex and grok did not

ok - claude (2.1.286 (Claude Code)): the doorbell reached a real worker, which acted and acked with the mv
# codex (codex-cli 0.118.0): idle composer never classified empty; proceeding as production does (advisory check skips only on pending)
# codex (codex-cli 0.118.0): re-rang the doorbell once (watcher's role) at 100s
not ok - codex (codex-cli 0.118.0): doorbell not honored within 200s (acted=no acked=no)
# opencode (opencode v2.0.19): re-rang the doorbell once (watcher's role) at 100s
ok - opencode (opencode v2.0.19): the doorbell reached a real worker, which acted and acked with the mv
ok - pi (0.99.1): the doorbell reached a real worker, which acted and acked with the mv
# grok (grok 1.0.44 (5b807183dd79) [stable]): idle composer never classified empty; proceeding as production does (advisory check skips only on pending)
# grok (grok 1.0.44 (5b807183dd79) [stable]): re-rang the doorbell once (watcher's role) at 100s
not ok - grok (grok 1.0.44 (5b807183dd79) [stable]): doorbell not honored within 200s (acted=no acked=no)
# harness absent, not verified here: kimi
# harness absent, not verified here: muse
not ok - live steering-inbox doorbell guard found failures above
Evidence: #6240 A/B conclusion: codex and grok fail identically on pre-sync code; grok's pane reports 'Weekly limit left: 0%'

Source: #6240 A/B conclusion: codex and grok fail identically on pre-sync code; grok's pane reports 'Weekly limit left: 0%'

=== #6240 A/B: are the codex and grok live failures caused by this merge? ===

Method: the SAME live e2e driven twice, once with this branch (AFTER) and once with
bin/fm-task-inbox-lib.sh + bin/fm-spawn.sh + the test reverted to the pre-sync
commit 4aecf233 (BEFORE), limited to codex and grok via FM_SEND_INBOX_LIVE_HARNESSES.

--- AFTER (this branch, all installed harnesses) ---
  ok - claude (2.1.286 (Claude Code)): the doorbell reached a real worker, which acted and acked with the mv
  not ok - codex (codex-cli 0.118.0): doorbell not honored within 200s (acted=no acked=no)
  ok - opencode (opencode v2.0.19): the doorbell reached a real worker, which acted and acked with the mv
  ok - pi (0.99.1): the doorbell reached a real worker, which acted and acked with the mv
  not ok - grok (grok 1.0.44 (5b807183dd79) [stable]): doorbell not honored within 200s (acted=no acked=no)
  not ok - live steering-inbox doorbell guard found failures above

--- BEFORE (pre-sync code, codex+grok only) ---
  not ok - codex (codex-cli 0.118.0): doorbell not honored within 200s (acted=no acked=no)
  not ok - grok (grok 1.0.44 (5b807183dd79) [stable]): doorbell not honored within 200s (acted=no acked=no)
  not ok - live steering-inbox doorbell guard found failures above

--- grok root cause, from its own pane in the BEFORE run ---
       ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Weekly limit left: 0% · Grok 4.5 (high) · always-approve ─╯

CONCLUSION: codex and grok fail IDENTICALLY (acted=no acked=no) on the pre-sync code,
so neither failure is merge fallout. grok names its own cause: the account has 0% of
its weekly limit left, so it cannot answer any prompt. claude, opencode and pi all
honored the NEW doorbell with no brief at all.
Evidence: #6240 A/B raw run against fully reverted pre-sync lib, spawn and test (codex + grok)

Source: #6240 A/B raw run against fully reverted pre-sync lib, spawn and test (codex + grok)

# codex (codex-cli 0.118.0): idle composer never classified empty; proceeding as production does (advisory check skips only on pending)
# codex (codex-cli 0.118.0): re-rang the doorbell once (watcher's role) at 100s
not ok - codex (codex-cli 0.118.0): doorbell not honored within 200s (acted=no acked=no)
# grok (grok 1.0.44 (5b807183dd79) [stable]): idle composer never classified empty; proceeding as production does (advisory check skips only on pending)
# grok (grok 1.0.44 (5b807183dd79) [stable]): re-rang the doorbell once (watcher's role) at 100s
not ok - grok (grok 1.0.44 (5b807183dd79) [stable]): doorbell not honored within 200s (acted=no acked=no)
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not ok - live steering-inbox doorbell guard found failures above
Evidence: #6216 real git commit with empty core.hooksPath: pre-fix REFUSES the commit, post-fix commits with the AI trailer stripped and no repository hook run

Source: #6216 real git commit with empty core.hooksPath: pre-fix REFUSES the commit, post-fix commits with the AI trailer stripped and no repository hook run

=== #6216 empty core.hooksPath runs NO repository hook and still strips the trailer ===

--- before ---
git commit exit: 1
stderr:
  | fatal: The empty string is not a valid path
  | fm-git-strip-ai-trailers: cannot resolve this repository's hooks directory; refusing to skip its pre-commit hook
HEAD moved?            NO (no commit)
repository hook ran?   NO

--- after ---
git commit exit: 0
committed message:
  | feat: a real change
  | Co-Authored-By: A Human <human@example.com>
AI trailer present?    NO (stripped)
human trailer kept?    YES
repository hook ran?   NO
Evidence: #6216 adversarial: unresolvable and valueless core.hooksPath still refuse, HEAD does not move, no hook silently skipped

Source: #6216 adversarial: unresolvable and valueless core.hooksPath still refuse, HEAD does not move, no hook silently skipped

=== #6216 ADVERSARIAL: a broken (non-empty) core.hooksPath must still REFUSE ===
host git: git version 2.43.0

--- unresolvable core.hooksPath ---
plain `git status` in such a repo: exit 128  -> git resolves hooksPath eagerly
git commit exit: 128
  | fatal: failed to expand user dir in: '~nonexistent-user-xyz/hooks'
HEAD moved?          NO (refused)
repo hook silently skipped? no hook ran, and no commit was made

--- valueless core.hooksPath ---
plain `git status` in such a repo: exit 128  -> git resolves hooksPath eagerly
git commit exit: 128
  | error: missing value for 'core.hookspath'
  | fatal: bad config variable 'core.hookspath' in file '.git/config' at line 10
HEAD moved?          NO (refused)
repo hook silently skipped? no hook ran, and no commit was made
Evidence: #6216 full git-strip suite 16/16 with the committed test-fix's honest env-probed skips

Source: #6216 full git-strip suite 16/16 with the committed test-fix's honest env-probed skips

ok - a Cursor --trailer commit object has no AI co-author and keeps the captain identity
ok - a human Co-authored-by trailer survives next to a stripped Cursor trailer
ok - a human co-author at a vendor domain survives; only the exact bot address is stripped
ok - a hook manager resolving the pane hooks dir fails instead of displacing the strip
ok - a relaunch reinstall replaces the read-only strip dir and still strips
ok - install chains the previous commit-msg hook after stripping
ok - a relative project core.hooksPath resolves against the worktree and still runs
ok - an inherited GIT_CONFIG hooksPath does not become the chained previous hooks
ok - a project hook that appears after install still runs for the rest of the task
ok - a pane GIT_CONFIG hooksPath still chains the repository git is actually in
ok - an empty project core.hooksPath runs no repository hook and still strips the trailer
ok - an unresolvable project core.hooksPath still refuses the commit (skipped: this git refuses every command in such a repository)
ok - a valueless project core.hooksPath still refuses the commit (skipped: this git refuses every command in such a repository)
ok - the repository's pre-push runs and can refuse under every hooksPath override channel
ok - a git -c hooksPath override still strips the trailer and chains the project's hooks
ok - commit-msg file mode strips the trailer and keeps the subject
# all fm-git-strip-ai-trailers tests passed
Evidence: #6192 the 9 CI serial shards are an exact disjoint cover of all 211 serial scripts (0 gaps, 0 duplicates)

Source: #6192 the 9 CI serial shards are an exact disjoint cover of all 211 serial scripts (0 gaps, 0 duplicates)

=== #6192 do the 9 CI serial shards partition the serial lane exactly once? ===

  shard 1of9:   1 scripts
  shard 2of9:  21 scripts
  shard 3of9:  27 scripts
  shard 4of9:  26 scripts
  shard 5of9:  26 scripts
  shard 6of9:  27 scripts
  shard 7of9:  27 scripts
  shard 8of9:  28 scripts
  shard 9of9:  28 scripts

  serial lane total      : 211
  union of all 9 shards  : 211
  duplicates across shards: 0
  in lane but no shard    : 0
  in a shard but not lane : 0

  RESULT: the 9 shards are an exact partition of the serial lane.
Evidence: #6192 coverage guard and packing budget: serial_max_ms 1074843 within serial_budget_ms 1200000, exact-budget boundary case passes

Source: #6192 coverage guard and packing budget: serial_max_ms 1074843 within serial_budget_ms 1200000, exact-budget boundary case passes

=== #6192 packing budget boundary (the guard that owns the rebalance) ===

ok - proven-isolated scheduling ignores parallel hints
ok - family, all, changed, and script selections ignore parallel hints
ok - portable shard union, disjointness, and coverage guard hold
ok - portable parallel lanes are fully hinted and packed within 5% of each other
ok - portable serial shards are a deterministic disjoint cover of the serial lane
ok - coverage guard bounds the unmeasured share and serial packing within twenty minutes
ok - serial packing accepts the exact budget and refuses one millisecond above it
ok - portable serial shard lanes refuse mismatched, out-of-range, and countless names

=== coverage guard metrics (from bin/fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage) ===
  FM_TEST_COVERAGE ok total=251 parallel=24 parallel_max_ms=665545 parallel_imbalance_ms=2 parallel_unhinted=0 serial=211 serial_shards=9 serial_unhinted=10 serial_max_ms=1074843 serial_budget_ms=1200000 herdr=16

  serial_max_ms 1074843 <= serial_budget_ms 1200000 : WITHIN
  headroom: 125157 ms
Evidence: #6192 lane composition from bin/fm-test-run.sh --list-lanes and --check-coverage

Source: #6192 lane composition from bin/fm-test-run.sh --list-lanes and --check-coverage

=== #6192 portable lane composition + packing budget (real runner CLI) ===

--- bin/fm-test-run.sh --list-lanes ---
  portable-parallel-1
  portable-parallel-2
  portable-serial
  portable-serial-1of9
  portable-serial-2of9
  portable-serial-3of9
  portable-serial-4of9
  portable-serial-5of9
  portable-serial-6of9
  portable-serial-7of9
  portable-serial-8of9
  portable-serial-9of9
  real-herdr-gated

--- coverage guard: every test script belongs to exactly one lane ---
  FM_TEST_COVERAGE ok total=251 parallel=24 parallel_max_ms=665545 parallel_imbalance_ms=2 parallel_unhinted=0 serial=211 serial_shards=9 serial_unhinted=10 serial_max_ms=1074843 serial_budget_ms=1200000 herdr=16
  --check-coverage exit: 0

--- lane sizes ---
  portable-parallel-1  13 scripts
  portable-parallel-2  11 scripts
  portable-serial      211 scripts
Evidence: #6213 teardown endpoint-safety 28/28 including the stale-record-on-a-claimed-slot case

Source: #6213 teardown endpoint-safety 28/28 including the stale-record-on-a-claimed-slot case

ok - fm-teardown: missing, empty, malformed, ambiguous, and task-mismatched endpoints refuse before every mutation or runtime call
ok - fm-teardown: a concurrent lifecycle action refuses before mutation
ok - fm-teardown: non-pool cleanup ignores unrelated task publication locks
ok - fm-teardown: destructive cleanup serializes with metadata writers
ok - cleanup identity: valid tmux, Herdr, Zellij, Orca, and cmux records validate while every empty backend target refuses
ok - cleanup identity: an Orca record's real composite worktree id validates while a separatorless or newline-carrying id refuses
ok - tmux backend: direct empty target returns nonzero without invoking tmux
ok - process cleanup: creation-time PID identity removes only the exact child and preserves the control child
ok - fm-teardown: exact tmux cleanup preserves invalid and prefix-matched neighbors while removing only the recorded target
ok - fm-teardown: a close that genuinely failed refuses and keeps the record naming the surviving endpoint, and the same teardown finishes once the close works
ok - fm-teardown: --force continues past a close it could not make while still reporting it, and the same case refuses without --force
ok - fm-teardown: a close re-read that could not run refuses, while a definitively absent session or server still completes silently
ok - fm-teardown: forced secondmate cleanup still refuses on a child endpoint close that failed
ok - fm-teardown: an Orca close its missing CLI never attempted refuses even under --force, keeping the record naming the terminal
ok - fm-teardown: an already-exited endpoint, and a server that is already gone, still complete cleanup silently
ok - Treehouse locking resolves a bare local origin against its source project, matching the provisioned clone
ok - fm-teardown: a pool slot named by a second task record is never returned, killed, or reset
ok - fm-teardown: a pool slot held by another firstmate home is never returned
ok - fm-teardown: a task that solely holds its slot still returns it
ok - fm-teardown: a pool slot claimed by another task is left alone while the task's own cleanup finishes
ok - fm-teardown: a stale record on a claimed slot retires, then the claimant tears down
ok - fm-teardown: a task's own slot claim, and an unclaimed slot, both still tear down
ok - fm-teardown: an exact recorded endpoint still tears down after changing cwd outside its worktree
ok - Treehouse project locking anchors at the local root for main-home, local-secondmate, and remote-seeded layouts
ok - fm-teardown: a remote-seeded secondmate home returns its own uncontested pool slot
ok - fm-teardown: slot ownership across a remote-seeded home and its local child still refuses
ok - Treehouse project locking still serializes two homes across the remote-seeded boundary
Evidence: #6213 control run with the hunk reverted: the case still passes, confirming it is a no-delta on this fork

Source: #6213 control run with the hunk reverted: the case still passes, confirming it is a no-delta on this fork


=== #6213 regression: same case with the fix REVERTED (upstream pre-#6213 fm-teardown.sh) ===
ok - fm-teardown: a close that genuinely failed refuses and keeps the record naming the surviving endpoint, and the same teardown finishes once the close works
ok - fm-teardown: forced secondmate cleanup still refuses on a child endpoint close that failed
ok - fm-teardown: a stale record on a claimed slot retires, then the claimant tears down
exit=0
Evidence: #6240 spawn exports the absolute steering inbox as FM_TASK_INBOX for ship and secondmate, proven by executing the emitted launch

Source: #6240 spawn exports the absolute steering inbox as FM_TASK_INBOX for ship and secondmate, proven by executing the emitted launch

ok - ship launch with no allowlist starts its agent with the compact-adviser switch on
ok - ship launch under an enabled allowlist keeps the compact-adviser switch through the cleared environment
ok - the launch command sets the switch on its own, whichever allowlist posture is in force
ok - a secondmate launch carries the compact-adviser switch in both allowlist postures
ok - ship and secondmate launches export their absolute steering inbox as FM_TASK_INBOX
ok - relaunch rebuilds the compact-adviser switch for the replacement agent in both allowlist postures
ok - a compound raw launch-command still starts its agent with the compact-adviser switch on
Evidence: fm-teardown full suite 107/107, 0 failures

Source: fm-teardown full suite 107/107, 0 failures

ok - a missing teardown startup source refuses before cleanup
ok - an unreadable teardown startup source refuses before cleanup
ok - a missing adapter sibling refuses before cleanup
ok - a forced descendant with a missing adapter sibling refuses before cleanup
ok - a forced secondmate with a missing own adapter sibling refuses before child cleanup
ok - present required sources still reach the ordinary teardown refusal
ok - local-only worktree with HEAD on a fork remote is torn down and the home summary is refreshed
ok - teardown closes its own backlog item before reporting success
ok - teardown honors config/backlog-backend=manual and still finishes cleanly
ok - local-only worktree with truly unpushed work is refused (safety preserved)
ok - local-only worktree with work merged into local main is torn down (no regression)
ok - no-mistakes worktree with HEAD on origin is torn down (no regression)
ok - no-mistakes worktree with genuinely unlanded work is refused (safety preserved)
ok - local-only worktree with unpushed work is torn down under --force (escape hatch)
ok - fm-pr-check publishes the PR-ready line on a secondmate's parent channel once
ok - a secondmate home's teardown delivers the child's final line or refuses until it can
ok - teardown completes when an exact busy-state sidecar is already absent
ok - herdr teardown removes pane-owned escalation dedupe state
ok - herdr flat teardown refuses before returning the isolated copy under lock contention and the retry completes cleanly
ok - herdr flat teardown never erases records when pane presence is unparseable
ok - herdr flat teardown preflight refuses before every destructive change
ok - forced secondmate teardown preflights every Herdr child before cleanup mutation
ok - forced secondmate teardown holds every descendant lifecycle and metadata lock
ok - forced secondmate teardown retains Herdr child identity until exact pane disappearance
ok - forced teardown retains a nested secondmate home and its grandchild's Herdr identity when the grandchild close is unconfirmed
ok - herdr projection teardown retires its journal only after confirming the exact recorded pane is gone
ok - herdr projection teardown retains every record when post-close presence is unknown
ok - herdr projection teardown surfaces failed focus restoration without turning confirmed cleanup into a hard failure
ok - a projected teardown removes the workspace its task-pane close left behind, without calling workspace close
ok - a projected teardown refuses and retains every record while its workspace cannot be confirmed gone
ok - teardown retires the task's own watcher markers and orphaned presentation journal, leaving other tasks' markers alone
ok - teardown retains a presentation journal bound to a pane other than the closed endpoint
ok - teardown retires a v1 presentation journal once its token workspace is confirmed gone
ok - teardown retains a v1 presentation journal while its token workspace is still present
ok - teardown retains a v1 presentation journal when the workspace query is ambiguous
ok - squash-merged + deleted-branch worktree (PR merged) is torn down (the fix)
ok - squash-merged PR accepts a local HEAD that is an ancestor of the final PR head
ok - teardown discovers a merged PR by branch name and tears down when no pr= was ever recorded
ok - squash-merged PR accepts replayed unpushed local patches contained in the PR head
ok - merged PR does not allow teardown after a later local commit
ok - squash-merged task whose local branch followed the pipeline rebase is torn down
ok - squash-merged same-path different content still refuses
ok - squash-merged rebased local still refuses a genuinely unlanded follow-up commit
ok - squash-merged stale local still refuses when the forge is unreachable
fm-contributions: data directory unavailable
contributions: observation not armed; coverage is unconfirmed
fm-contributions: data directory unavailable
contributions: observation not armed; coverage is unconfirmed
ok - fm-pr-check does not refresh PR head after HEAD moves
fm-contributions: data directory unavailable
contributions: observation not armed; coverage is unconfirmed
ok - fm-pr-check records the remote PR head when the local worktree lags
ok - worktree whose content already landed in the default branch is torn down (content fallback)
ok - content fallback refreshes origin default before comparing trees
ok - dirty worktree is refused even when its committed work has landed (dirty always wins)
ok - gh lookup error with content not in default refuses (fail-safe)
ok - a record predating spawn_gen refuses teardown until --legacy-record is passed
ok - a windowless leftover with no spawn_gen and no worktree tears down without --legacy-record
ok - a windowless leftover with no spawn_gen also tears down when --legacy-record is passed
ok - a windowless leftover still refuses while its worktree holds unlanded work
ok - a windowless record with a spawn_gen, a non-tmux backend or endpoint identity, no backlog validation, or ambiguous, foreign, or malformed identity still refuses
ok - a windowless leftover retries its retained legacy stamp without --legacy-record
ok - a landed legacy record with a dead endpoint tears down and logs its accepted incarnation
ok - --legacy-record never relaxes the unlanded-work refusal
ok - an endpoint that cannot be confidently read as dead refuses --legacy-record teardown
ok - --legacy-record teardown rolls its stamp back when the close marker write fails
ok - an explicitly cleared endpoint tears down without --force or --legacy-record
ok - an explicitly cleared endpoint never relaxes the unlanded-work refusal
ok - a missing window without an endpoint_cleared stamp still refuses
ok - a legacy stamp a failed rollback left behind still faces the endpoint gate
ok - a corrupt spawn_gen is never accepted as a legacy record
ok - provably-stale worktree index.lock (old, no live holder) is cleared and teardown succeeds
ok - live-held worktree index.lock is never removed and teardown refuses
ok - lsof errors leave worktree index.lock in place and refuse teardown
ok - stale lock cleanup rechecks and refuses dirty worktree before return
ok - normal repo index.lock is resolved from the worktree and cleared when stale
ok - lock mtime read failures leave worktree index.lock in place and refuse teardown
ok - transient index.lock cleared after first failed return is retried successfully without force-remove
ok - persistent index.lock exhausts retries and refuses without force-removing the lock
ok - empty retry wait overrides use the default without aborting teardown
ok - fractional legacy retry wait remains supported without arithmetic
ok - a task's own parked no-mistakes run is aborted, not orphaned, before the worker is removed
ok - a run that lands on passed-with-override after abort is still recognized as terminal
ok - a run that lands on passed-with-skips after abort is still recognized as terminal
ok - a parked run the pipeline advanced past the task copy is still concluded from the runs ledger, not orphaned
ok - a ledger row for a different head never authorizes a parked-run abort
ok - a malformed ledger row never authorizes a parked-run abort
ok - an impossible ledger date never authorizes a parked-run abort
ok - a terminal status with a stale gate never reaches ledger cleanup
ok - an advanced head present locally aborts through the strict rule alone - the ledger fallback stays dormant
ok - an unresolvable active row with no same-branch anchor is never concluded (conservative refusal)
ok - an ancestor-only anchor never binds an advanced parked run to this task
ok - a terminal unfetched-head row is stale history and never concludes a run
ok - a terminal newest row anchored at this worktree's head never authorizes an abort
ok - a resolvable diverged newer same-branch row makes every older row stale history; no run is concluded
ok - consecutive unresolvable rows are ambiguous and never conclude a run
ok - a ledger-proven continuation is still left alone while the run is autonomously active
ok - teardown refuses before reap or removal when a task-owned run remains parked
ok - a different run cannot confirm the targeted abort
ok - empty post-abort status is not accepted as confirmation
ok - the CLI's exact run-not-found signal confirms completion
ok - a parked run on another branch is never aborted by this task's teardown (ownership is precise)
ok - a task-owned autonomous running step is left alone rather than aborted
ok - a leaked descendant process rooted under the task's worktree is reaped by teardown, not left surviving
ok - a leaked descendant process rooted under the task's per-task tasktmp is reaped by teardown too
ok - missing lsof falls back to reaping the tmux pane process group
ok - an erroring lsof scan refuses teardown and preserves the task
ok - a reused pid with a different start time is never force-killed
ok - an exec change preserves birth identity and the process is reaped
ok - a process spawned during grace is reaped on a later pass
ok - persistent leaked processes refuse teardown after bounded retries
ok - a process exiting during identity lookup does not block teardown
ok - the run abort and the leaked-process reap both complete before the destructive worktree return
Evidence: Control: the 2 fm-test-run failures are the recorded host issue (test file absent from this diff; host reparents orphans to a systemd subreaper, not PID 1)

Source: Control: the 2 fm-test-run failures are the recorded host issue (test file absent from this diff; host reparents orphans to a systemd subreaper, not PID 1)

=== are the 2 fm-test-run failures merge fallout or the recorded host issue? ===

--- is fm-session-lock-ancestry.test.sh in this sync diff? ---
  matches in sync diff: 0
--- does this host reparent orphans to PID 1? ---
  pid 1 is: systemd
  orphaned child ppid: 1285 (expected 1 for the assertion to hold)
  subreaper: systemd

--- the failing assertion site ---
    kill -TERM "$daemon"
    i=0
    while [ "$i" -lt 200 ] && { kill -0 "$daemon" 2>/dev/null || [ "$(ps -o ppid= -p "$ptyhost" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' ')" != 1 ]; }; do
      sleep 0.05
      i=$((i + 1))
    done
    [ "$(ps -o ppid= -p "$ptyhost" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' ')" = 1 ] || fail "the pty-host was not reparented to init after the daemon ended"
    kill -0 "$frontend" 2>/dev/null || fail "the front-end died with the daemon, so the recycled case cannot be exercised"
  
    # Phase 2: the same session id over the broken chain - the reported drift.
    fire_phase "$dir" 2 'export CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID=S1; export CLAUDE_PID=$$'
- Outcome: ⚠️ 2 infos across 1 run (38m15s)

Pipeline

Updates from git push no-mistakes

... (10 earlier update rounds omitted to keep the PR body within GitHub's 65536-char limit; full history is in the run log.)

⚠️ **Test** - 2 infos
  • bash tests/fm-git-strip-ai-trailers.test.sh - 16/16 pass, including the committed test-fix's env-probed skips for the two broken-hooksPath refusal cases on this host's git 2.43.0
  • Manual live drive: real git commit with core.hooksPath=&#34;&#34; against an installed wrapper, pre-fix vs post-fix, with a canary repository commit-msg hook to detect silent delegation
  • Manual live drive: adversarial unresolvable (~nonexistent-user-xyz/hooks) and valueless core.hooksPath, asserting the commit is refused and HEAD does not move
  • Manual live drive: real doorbell line generated from bin/fm-task-inbox-lib.sh at a shallow vs 236-char-deep state dir, pre-sync lib vs this branch, comparing line length
  • Manual live drive: the real doorbell typed into a live 80x24 tmux pane on a private socket, counting wrapped terminal rows pre-sync vs post-sync; then Enter in the bare (dead-agent) pane to confirm inertness; then ls &#34;$FM_TASK_INBOX&#34;/*.msg in that same pane to confirm the worker can resolve its inbox
  • FM_SEND_INBOX_LIVE_E2E=1 FM_SEND_INBOX_LIVE_TIMEOUT=200 bash tests/fm-send-inbox-doorbell-live-e2e.test.sh - real agents, no brief, isolated tmux server: claude 2.1.286 PASS, opencode v2.0.19 PASS, pi 0.99.1 PASS, codex 0.118.0 FAIL, grok 1.0.44 FAIL
  • A/B control: the same live e2e with bin/fm-task-inbox-lib.sh, bin/fm-spawn.sh and the test reverted to pre-sync 4aecf233, FM_SEND_INBOX_LIVE_HARNESSES=&#39;codex grok&#39; - both fail identically, proving the two failures are not merge fallout
  • bash tests/fm-spawn-compact-adviser-disable.test.sh - 7/7, including the new case that executes the emitted launch with an env probe to prove ship and secondmate agents start with FM_TASK_INBOX set, under the cleared launch-env-allowlist posture
  • bash tests/fm-task-inbox.test.sh - 21/21, including the hostile-inbox-name no-op and terminal-control rejection cases
  • bash tests/fm-send-inbox.test.sh - 14/14
  • bash tests/fm-teardown-endpoint-safety.test.sh - 28/28, including a stale record on a claimed slot retires, then the claimant tears down (#6213)
  • bash tests/fm-teardown.test.sh - 107/107, 0 failures
  • Regression control: the same teardown endpoint-safety suite run against bin/fm-teardown.sh reverted to pre-#6213, showing the adopted hunk is a no-delta on this fork's claim-first ordering
  • bin/fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage - total=251, serial_max_ms=1074843 within serial_budget_ms=1200000
  • bin/fm-test-run.sh --list --lane portable-serial-&lt;k&gt;of9 for k=1..9, set-compared against --list --lane portable-serial to prove an exact disjoint cover of all 211 scripts
  • bash tests/fm-test-run.test.sh - 49 pass, 2 pre-existing host failures; all six #6192 packing cases pass including serial packing accepts the exact budget and refuses one millisecond above it
  • Host-environment control for those 2 failures: confirmed tests/fm-session-lock-ancestry.test.sh is absent from the sync diff and that this host reparents orphans to a systemd --user subreaper (ppid 1285), not PID 1
⚠️ **Document** - 1 info
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…spatch (#1)

* feat(harness): add the cline crewmate/scout adapter with ClinePass dispatch

Add Cline CLI 3.0.62 as a verified crewmate/scout harness following the agy
pattern: ancestry detection on the native .cline process, a launch-then-send
TUI launch, per-task .cline/hooks busy/turn-end wiring under a new cline-hook
busy source, Escape interrupt, /exit, and control-plane tables. Wire the
ClinePass open-weights pool into the crew-dispatch example and document the
known composer-empty gap (placeholder luminance above the shared ghost
ceiling) with a tmux live guard as the refresh command.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(docs,quota): correct cline resume grouping and cline-pass family id

* no-mistakes(document): docs: cover cline in tmux liveness/anchoring list and configuration.md secondmate-refusal note

* no-mistakes(lint): {"summary": "lint: no code changes needed, fm-lint.sh passes with shellcheck on PATH"}

* chore(gitignore): drop the stray .omc handoff artifact and ignore .omc/

The no-mistakes gate agent's Claude Code oh-my-claudecode plugin writes
.omc/handoffs/last-session-end.md into the run worktree at session end, and a
later pipeline step committed it into this branch. Remove the committed file and
ignore .omc/ so a home-environment handoff artifact can never ride into a PR.

---------

Co-authored-by: firstmate-worker <worker@local>
Two Claude subscriptions need to run concurrently across lanes without
moving every claude spawn onto one account. --claude-config-dir picks the
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR one claude spawn's pane resolves into: validated before
any worktree or endpoint exists, recorded in the task's own meta, reused
unchanged on --relaunch, and threaded through both the pre-launch trust
registration and the launch's own environment so the two halves can never
land in different stores. A spawn naming no seat is byte-identical to
before.
Count live crewmate, scout, and local secondmate lanes grouped by the
billing provider a candidate actually draws on, expose the load for
dispatch intake, and refuse a spawn that would push a provider past its
configured cap.

Provider identity comes from the resolved model string, not the harness
name: a provider-qualified prefix or a model-id pattern decides the pool,
and the harness table is only the fallback. That keeps two models on one
pool counting together while a different pool stays separate. The mapping
lives once in bin/fm-provider-lib.sh, whose fallback reuses the existing
quota tables rather than restating them.

A lane occupies a seat unless its recorded endpoint is provably dead or
missing, so a cleared seat is visible before the next dispatch. The cap
comes from providerCaps in config/crew-dispatch.json (per provider, else
default), falling back to 4; bootstrap now rejects a malformed
providerCaps instead of silently ignoring it.

bin/fm-provider-load.sh prints the current per-provider used/cap for
intake. Stranded-record detection stays with fm-lane-account-dead-records;
this counter reads the current endpoint classifier.
Deliver bin/fm-hold-reverify.sh, an armed watcher check that re-checks each
captain hold past an age threshold against shipped reality and reports it as
dead, still_live, not_a_decision, or unestablishable - the reconciliation
vocabulary captain-hold-lifecycle already owns.

It reports only: it never calls answer and never closes or annotates a call,
so only the captain's own words or an explicit evidence-backed reconciliation
can resolve one. Dead is never inferred from absence or an unreadable source.

Aged holds come from the canonical local backlog projection
(fm-fleet-snapshot.sh --contribution-input); recorded pull requests are read
through fm-pr-lib.sh. Each sweep writes a docket and prints one line only when
the finding set changes, with a report record keyed on that set.
…rget

A firstmate home had no way to see that another home was already working a
shared external target, so the main home and a secondmate could both arm to
land the same PR with nothing to stop a double merge.

bin/fm-claim.sh records, releases, and inspects a work claim on a shared
external target - a PR, an issue id, or a declared file area. The store is a
machine-wide directory (FM_CLAIM_ROOT, default
${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}/firstmate/claims), the sibling of the
existing process-event source claim root, because one owner per canonical
target cannot live inside a single home. Local homes share one filesystem; a
remote secondmate is a separate host and stays outside the mechanism.

Acquire is atomic and fails closed: a second home's live claim refuses rather
than racing. A claim is released on cleanup or reclaimed only when its holder
is provably gone (its home directory is absent, or its task record is absent
past FM_CLAIM_PENDING_GRACE). Any uncertainty keeps the claim.

bin/fm-spawn.sh --claim records the claim before any endpoint or task record
exists and refuses the spawn on conflict, recording the canonical keys on the
task as claims=; fm-teardown.sh releases them on cleanup. The flag is refused
on --secondmate, --relaunch, and a batch dispatch.

Tests: tests/fm-claim.test.sh drives the real CLI across two simulated homes
sharing one claim root, plus a real spawn that records its claim and a second
dispatch that is refused.
Merge authority was decided once at intake and never revisited, so a task
dispatched yolo=on kept that authority even after firstmate held it for the
captain, and the recorded authority and the merge path could disagree.

Fold the captain-hold predicate into fm_merge_authority_resolve, the single
owner of a task's standing merge authority, so a held task resolves to
captain-hold (or hold-unreadable) whatever its yolo posture or away grants say.
Remove bin/fm-pr-merge.sh's duplicate require_released_captain_hold and fold its
refusal into the shared gate, and have bin/fm-merge-local.sh share the same
predicate instead of repeating it.
A worker parked on a provider quota wall kept a live, painting harness
while its turn could not advance, so every one of them read as working
from its semantic busy record. The measured fleet incident had all of
one provider's workers stalled at the same weekly limit while
supervision saw a healthy fleet.

Recognize the wall from the pane text the busy reader already inspects.
The signal is built from two independent rendered families - a
wall-shaped limit phrase and a scheduled retry/reset phrase - within the
last few non-empty lines, so no single vendor string is load-bearing and
ordinary worker prose does not match. A busy verdict over that wall
reports `quota` instead of busy.

fm-crew-state.sh surfaces it as its own `state: quota` rather than
collapsing it into working or a declared pause, because a quota-killed
worker cannot be relaunched in place; the recovery skill now states that
preserve-and-replace under a new id is the path.

The portable regression pins the logic and its divergence cases over
synthetic transcripts. The live guard drives the real installed OpenCode
TUI against a local 429 stub so its own retry modal renders with no
model tokens spent, and proves the same task reads working before the
wall and quota after it.
Teardown refused any record whose endpoint was already cleared, so a lane
could never be retired once its window was gone and it kept occupying an
in-flight row. Accept an explicit endpoint_cleared stamp as stronger
agent-less evidence than a dead window, with no flag and no --force, while
keeping the unlanded-work refusal unchanged.

A projected Herdr teardown confirmed only the task pane was gone, so a
workspace whose recorded pane vanished before its close survived for a
restart to restore as a live agent in the primary clone. Remove the
workspace's remaining panes through the same focus-preserving pane close and
require the workspace gone before retiring the journal.

A dead pane whose display redrew re-alarmed on every new hash, a supervision
tax that grew with each dead lane. Absorb a redrawn dead display against the
existing once-record, while a relaunched agent re-arms the incarnation and
its own death still reports in full.
keenvc and others added 23 commits September 20, 2026 02:22
… alongside the reliability batch

# Conflicts:
#	bin/fm-bootstrap.sh
#	bin/fm-control-lib.sh
#	bin/fm-quota-choose.sh
#	docs/configuration.md
#	docs/examples/crew-dispatch.json
… fork merge

Committed only to let a clean merge proceed without touching this work;
not otherwise reviewed or authored by this session.
…s the preserved cline adapter

# Conflicts:
#	AGENTS.md
Make the Fireworks DeepSeek dispatch lane usable: openhands is now a
verified crewmate/scout harness with launch, readiness, busy, interrupt,
and exit mechanics, so config/crew-dispatch.json no longer fails as an
unverified adapter.
# Conflicts:
#	.agents/skills/harness-adapters/SKILL.md
#	AGENTS.md
#	bin/fm-agent-process-lib.sh
#	bin/fm-bootstrap.sh
#	bin/fm-busy-lib.sh
#	bin/fm-composer-lib.sh
#	bin/fm-control-lib.sh
#	bin/fm-harness.sh
#	bin/fm-spawn.sh
#	docs/agent-control.md
#	docs/architecture.md
#	docs/configuration.md
#	docs/trace-context.md
#	docs/verification/runtime-backends.md
#	tests/fm-control.test.sh
# Conflicts:
#	.gitignore
#	bin/fm-spawn.sh
* fix(bin): read aged holds via backlog-json, not contribution-input

The hold re-verify sweep only needs canonical backlog rows; contribution-input
also walks every task meta for merge-authority resolution, which took ~96s at
this fleet size and always exceeded the five-second projection bound. Add
fm-fleet-snapshot.sh --backlog-json for that narrower read and point the sweep
at it so failures stay loud without raising the timeout.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(bin): apply review decisions for aged hold re-verify sweep

Sort aged captain holds oldest-first before the per-sweep cap, let
FM_HOLD_REVERIFY_BUDGET_SECS govern the backlog projection bound, clamp
forge probes to remaining budget, skip probes for predetermined
not-a-decision rows, drop the classify subcommand, and document
--backlog-json.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(bin): use backlog_json output mode label for shellcheck

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* docs: fold pipeline document-step hold-reverify pointers into fork tip

Adds the toolbelt row and prose alignment from the failed run's document
step without rebasing onto upstream main.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(document): correct hold-reverify docket contents description

* chore: gitignore .omc session state and document in AGENTS.md

Apply captain inbox 006 on the fork publication branch without rebasing onto upstream main.

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* ci: expect 19 snapshot/fleet-view tests under stock macOS Bash

The fork's tests/fm-fleet-snapshot-view.test.sh carries
test_large_payloads_compose_through_files, the regression for
bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh composing payloads above 128KB through files
instead of argv. It landed in d9356ca together with that snapshot
change and passes under /bin/bash 3.2 on the macOS runner, which
already counted 19 ok lines, so the hard-coded 18 in the macOS job was
the only thing left behind.

* docs: declare the cline-pass provider on the documented cline profiles

The resolver refuses docs/examples/crew-dispatch.json with "profiles
whose harness lacks one authoritative provider family require
provider: cline", so the documented-example check in
tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh has failed since the cline profiles
were added to the example.

The example is the wrong side. The resolver's provider is the quota-axi
provider family it ranks candidates by, not the launch prefix cline
reads from its model id, and the single-provider table in
docs/configuration.md leaves cline out on purpose: the model prefix,
not the harness, decides who bills the run, exactly as for pi and omp.
The Pi default in the same example already declares provider: claude
for that reason. Add provider: cline-pass to the four cline profiles,
correct the one sentence in docs/configuration.md that claimed no field
was needed, and give the test's canned Choice answer the fourth rule
the example now has, since the resolver checks the answer against the
full option set.

* test: corrupt the claim record under test, not the first one find returns

The corrupt-record check picked its victim with find | head -n 1 while
three claims exist, so on a filesystem whose directory order differs
from the author's it corrupted o/r#7 or repos/example#9 and then asked
about owner/repo#11, whose intact record answered "held" with exit 0.
CI's stdout showed exactly that line. Select the record by its
documented key= line instead. The guard itself is intact: corrupting
the right record returns exit 5 on the same inputs.

* test: give the restart watchers a refresh bound a slow runner can meet

In the watcher-restart section of tests/fm-home-summary-refresh.test.sh
the watcher runs with FM_HOME_SUMMARY_INTERVAL=999999, but age_of
reports 999999 for a missing ledger, so its detached refresh fires on
every one-second poll. After the lock holder is killed that refresh
steals the dead lock ahead of the test's idle-only refresh, which then
returns without publishing, and with the section's
FM_HOME_SUMMARY_TIMEOUT=2 a slow runner kills the watcher's attempt
before it publishes. The next poll dies the same way and the ledger
never appears, which is the "a dead publication lock wedged
publication" failure in CI run 35683307194.

Raise the three restart watchers' bound to 30 seconds, the deadline
this file already uses for its accumulated-home publication. Under a
30% CPU quota the unchanged test fails on exactly that line and the
changed one passes all 21 checks. The idle-only refresh, the dead-lock
reclamation and the 10-second wait are untouched.
…wner (adopt kunchenguid#5993) (#7)

* Fix reassigned teardown slot collisions

(cherry picked from commit 115333b)

* no-mistakes(document): Document claim-first pool-slot teardown behavior

(cherry picked from commit dcbe51a)

* no-mistakes(document): Confirm teardown documentation reflects slot ownership behavior

(cherry picked from commit bdcedcf)

* fix(teardown): avoid presentation-lock races after claim-first slot cleanup

Reassigned-slot teardown with a dead Herdr husk no longer takes the shared
presentation session lock, restoring the pre-5993 contention profile for stale
records while keeping live-slot protection intact. Herdr presentation recovery
spawns now wait up to 120s for that lock and release it on abort so concurrent
cross-home recovery cannot fail the 5s try loop after a legitimate holder.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: QIanGua <15757826110@163.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
…in config (#9)

* Fix OpenCode v2 worker launch to use --standalone and config model.

OpenCode 2.x removed the interactive --model flag; carry the resolved model in OPENCODE_CONFIG_CONTENT and launch with --standalone so the model and permission block are honored off the shared service.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(bin): honor opencode v2 top-level model and gate --standalone

Always write the resolved model as OPENCODE_CONFIG_CONTENT top-level model on 2.x, drop unverified agent.build variant JSON, and keep the 1.x --model launch shape when opencode --version reports major 1.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* test: stub opencode --version in shared spawn fakebin

Spawn tests prepend a fakebin to PATH; fm-spawn now probes opencode
--version for the v1/v2 launch gate, so every spawn fakebin must answer it.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* feat(bin): defer the wedge escalation for a lane parked at a supervisor-owed gate (#4974)

* fix(watch): recheck a gate awaiting a human instead of wedge-escalating it

A lane whose validation run is parked at a gate waiting on a human
decision is correctly quiet, but nothing in its status line says so: the
evidence is the pipeline's own gate state rather than anything the worker
wrote. The wedge timer read that silence as a suspected wedge and climbed
the escalation ladder for as long as the wait lasted, and each escalation
cost a supervising turn. The landed declared-wait consult does not reach
it, because a live ordinary crewmate never reports a declared pause, and
raising FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS would delay genuine wedge detection for
every lane by the same amount.

The threshold now reads a second, independent record when the status line
accounts for nothing: whether the crew's current state is a gate whose
answer is owed by a human. That is minted only from the gate's own
findings table, by a row whose `action` column is exactly `ask-user`,
located by position out of the table header the way nm_gate_step_row
already reads its row - never searched for over the run payload, where a
finding's free-text description or a branch name satisfies a search just
as well. A gate awaiting the CREWMATE's own answer keeps the unchanged
escalation schedule, reason and demand-deep-inspection wording, because a
crewmate that goes quiet before answering its own gate is exactly the
wedge the ladder exists to catch.

Each kind of wait now carries the human it is on, the action that clears
it, and whether that human is the captain as data alongside the verdict,
rather than as wording chosen per branch where the recheck is written, so
the deferral cannot word one kind of wait as another and a new kind
cannot ship without deciding all of them. A parked gate has no written
record of when its wait began, so its recheck publishes no wait age at
all rather than one read from the quiet window this deferral resets on
every pass, which would report the same small number for a gate of any
age. Like every other captain-facing recheck here it is absorbed in
silence while the away-posture record exists, arming no throttle, so the
recheck is owed in full the moment the record is archived.

The consult runs only in the at-threshold branch that was about to
escalate, beside the worktree walk already there, and only for lanes
whose status line explained nothing.

Closes #3055

* no-mistakes(review): require an unanswered decision before deferring a parked gate

* no-mistakes(review): reset the away-silenced timer, fail-safe findings parse, US-joined wait records

* test(watch): pass the pane hash wedge_timer_check now takes

Upstream gave wedge_timer_check a sixth <pane-hash> argument for its
dead-record probe. The malformed-wait-record rounds drive the real function
directly, so they pass one, and stub fm_backend_agent_state to a live agent so
the probe that runs after a refused deferral keeps the unchanged ladder rather
than reading a backend the child shell has none of.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind parked-gate wait to its run, owe it firstmate

* no-mistakes(document): correct wait-kind count, crew-state reader scope, gate-key coupling

* feat(watch): make the parked-gate wait deferral opt-in

The wedge timer deferring a lane parked at a validation gate is new
supervision behaviour rather than a restored one, and it decides which
lanes give up the escalation ladder, so it now ships as a default-off
per-home option instead of changing every home on upgrade.

config/wedge-defer-parked-gate arms it. The flag is read before the
decision fold, so an unconfigured home spends no fold or current-state
read, writes no record, and keeps the unchanged escalation schedule,
reasons and demand-deep-inspection wording; a test counts the reader
calls in both directions to pin that.

It is not inherited by secondmate homes: each home supervises its own
crew and owns that trade separately, the same reason
config/turnend-churn-absorb is home-local.

The away-posture absorb returns to leaving the idle timer alone, which
it had restarted only because the costly consult could reach it. A
parked-gate wait is owed to the supervisor rather than the captain, so
it never enters that branch, and the recheck owed on return is again
owed in full the moment the record is archived.

* test(watch): pin that the away-silenced hold leaves the idle timer alone

The absorb no longer restarts the timer, so the recheck owed on return is
owed in full rather than a cadence into the return. Nothing asserted
that, so a restart could be reintroduced silently.

* no-mistakes(review): document away-silence rationale, pin captured gate component

* no-mistakes(test): anchor gate row scan to the braced findings header

* no-mistakes(document): pin same-block gate row invariant in crew-state comment

* fix(bin): reclaim a task whose herdr endpoint was destroyed (#5007)

* fix(control): let the owning seat reclaim a task whose endpoint is gone

A destroyed pane or workspace made `missing` a terminal state. Relaunch
accepted only `dead` and said to stop the agent first; exit refused
`missing` and said to reconcile the task first; there is no reconcile
verb. Each command named the other as its prerequisite, so a task whose
terminal went away could not be reclaimed by anything, and a no-mistakes
approval it was parked on had no seat left to answer it.

`missing` is agent-free a fortiori: there is no endpoint, so there is no
agent in it. Widen the existing guards rather than add a verb.

- fm-spawn --relaunch accepts a positively proven `missing` and creates
  one fresh endpoint in the recorded worktree; the record it already
  republishes rebinds the task to it. A `dead` endpoint is still adopted
  in place.
- fm-control exit reports `endpoint-gone` instead of dying, so the
  relaunch transaction's stop step no longer dead-ends, and re-resolves
  the endpoint from the record before verifying the replacement.

The duplicate-agent refusal is untouched: both verdicts come from the
same recovery-grade classifier, which claims `missing` only from positive
absence, so `alive`, `ambiguous`, and `unreadable` all still refuse. The
backends' own create paths refuse a live same-labeled endpoint as a
second independent guard. The worktree, its branch, commits, uncommitted
changes, armed poll and registration, record rows, and status log are all
untouched - a reclaim is a recovery, never a teardown.

A secondmate is excluded: its gone-endpoint recovery already has one
owner in the session-start liveness sweep, so relaunch refuses and names
it rather than becoming a second path to the same outcome.

Tests reproduce both halves of the deadlock, the reclaim succeeding,
unlanded work surviving it, and the refusals that still hold.

* no-mistakes(review): prove endpoint absence per backend before reclaim rebinds

* no-mistakes(review): give exit and relaunch one absence proof; pin herdr rebind session

* no-mistakes(review): narrow endpoint reclaim to herdr; tmux refuses honestly

* no-mistakes(review): stop refusals and docs asserting unestablished causes

* no-mistakes(review): stop herdr fixture helper losing tmp-root registration

* no-mistakes(review): document workspace drift and absence-probe server residue

* no-mistakes(review): correct rebind limitation to its one reachable case

* no-mistakes(review): stop claiming reclaim leaves instructions untouched

* no-mistakes(document): scope fm-control-lib purity claim, note reclaim coverage

* no-mistakes(rebase): read the staged launch file in the herdr fixture

Rebasing onto main picked up #4994, which stages a long worker launch
command into a script and delivers the short `. '<path>'` line instead of
the literal command. The tmux fake and tests/fixtures.sh were updated for
that; the herdr fake this branch adds was written before it and still
keyed "an agent now exists on this pane" off the literal
`encode launch-brief` text, so after the rebase it never marked the
rebound pane live and the reclaim's alive-wait read `dead`.

Dereference the staged file first, exactly as the tmux fake above does.
Test-fixture only; no production path changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(document): note reclaim placement in herdr and scripts inventories

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(bin): stamp status events with their emission time (#3764)

* test(status): reproduce missing event emission time

* wip(status): preserve optional event emission time

* test(status): document indirect clock stub invocation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve historical status bytes during reply recovery

* no-mistakes(test): Fix timestamped status assertions and remote fixture dependencies

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve captain regex overrides for timestamped status events

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify status event timing and publication contracts

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote literal done to satisfy ShellCheck

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, updated .github/workflows/ci.yml to expect 19 snapshot tests instead of 18, matching the PR’s added regression. Reproduced the failure before the fix. Stock Bash 3.2.57 verification passed: parse sweep, 19 snapshot tests, 53 Bearings tests, and the public-followup regression. Workflow lint and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(test): Preserve terminal notifications with malformed timestamp tags

* no-mistakes(test): Stamp Rovo spawn failures with emission time

* no-mistakes(document): Verify status event documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck quoting in status emission-time tests

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed four lifecycle assertions to accept emission timestamps while preserving publication and retry checks. Reproduced the CI failure before the fix. The lifecycle suite now passes with six Beads capability skips; syntax, targeted ShellCheck, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed malformed timestamp colons hiding actionable events using shared normalization. Original bytes and unknown ages are preserved. Regression reproduced before the fix; classifier and remote-reply suites, targeted lint, syntax, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp remote escalations at call sites, drop new flag

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped escalation and close lines in test assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Restore reserved-key answered-note guard for stamped closes

* test(status): accept optional emission time in PR-provenance assertions

The #4148 provenance test landed on main with exact unstamped greps.
Parent-channel lines from this branch carry [at=<epoch>], so strip only
that tag before the same exact match. No production change.

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped ready signal in PR fallback scrape

* no-mistakes(review): Drop relay flag, stamp parent events at call sites

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp worker terminal-signal instructions, revert fm-on fixture

* no-mistakes(review): Accept optional stamp in live cmux drift guard

* no-mistakes(review): Restore original test invocation order in two suites

* no-mistakes(review): Strip only well-formed numeric status time tags

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped PR-ready line spelling from channel doc

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp agy spawn-failure status lines with event time

* fix(bin): normalize status event times in-shell and freeze the budget test clock

Two paths made a status event's emission time cost more than it should.

The captain-relevance fallback piped every line through awk to drop a
well-formed `[at=<epoch>]` tag before matching, so a supervisor sweep paid a
fork per line just to prepare a regex match. Shell parameter expansion does the
same strip with no fork, and the retry-dedup scan now reuses that one helper
instead of carrying a second copy of the rule in awk. The copies had already
drifted: the shell side stripped tags from lines with no colon, which the awk
rule left whole, so a colonless line could be mistaken for one already
recorded. One definition, checked against the awk rule it replaces over the
edge cases and a 4000-line fuzz.

tests/fm-contributions.test.sh froze its fixture clock only in exhaust mode. In
hang mode the poll set DEADLINE to the real now plus a one-second budget, and
when the second ticked before the first forge call the loop broke without ever
calling gh: forge/calls was never written and the assertion failed reading a
missing file. Freezing the clock in both modes removes the dependence on wall
time; the bounded call is still cut by the real timeout, so the observation the
test asserts still starts.

Emission time stays optional on new status records, and legacy or malformed
lines keep an unknown age.

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp ask-user escalation line and fix Kimi status assertion

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped done-line spelling from watcher docs

* test: fold emission-time snapshot coverage into the fixture case

Drop the incidental ci.yml 18-to-19 count hunk so the PR no longer
touches workflows. Keep every emission-time assertion by folding it
into test_fixture_snapshot_json.

* no-mistakes(review): replace brief date substitution with epoch placeholder; drop emitted_at_epoch

* no-mistakes(review): align untimed normalizer with epoch parser; tolerate placeholder stamp in PR scrape

* no-mistakes(review): strip undelimited at-tags; correct brief stamp header

* no-mistakes(review): normalize stamps at both captain-regex sites; restore mtime freshness

* no-mistakes(review): strip colon-bearing stamps for relevance; fix headers and test oracles

* no-mistakes(review): narrow escalation match to stamp tolerance; pin note verb

* no-mistakes(review): read note and key past colon-bearing stamps

* test(status): keep inactive reconcile assertions stamp-tolerant

These two oracles were made stamp-tolerant while resolving one of the
branch's merges from main. The rebase drops merge commits, so that
adaptation was lost and both assertions went back to matching an exact
substring that a stamped line no longer contains: the tag lands before
the colon, so "failed [key=k]: ..." is now "failed [key=k] [at=N]: ...".
Strip a well-formed tag before matching, as the branch's other oracles do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(review): unstamp fold colon tests; reserve stamp width in cap

* no-mistakes(document): correct stale unstamped status-line spellings in docs

* no-mistakes(document): quote brief-test literals for lint; correct stamp-helper contract comments

* no-mistakes(ci): rename subshell-local epoch in delivery-race stub

The serialization test overrides fm_pending_reply_mark_delivered inside a
(..) subshell. Its `epoch` local collided with the same name in
status_line_at_epoch/status_stamp_line, which this branch added and this
suite now calls at top level, so ShellCheck 0.11.0 reported SC2030 and
failed Lint 2. The stub already prefixes its other locals with `pending_`
for the same reason; `epoch` was the leftover.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(bin): unify Lavish host and disconnect handling (#5060)

* fix: ship clean Lavish host fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Lavish classifications and fail-closed host loading

* no-mistakes(review): Restore Lavish host state across retries and launches

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve destination Lavish host when configuration is absent

* no-mistakes(document): Document Lavish status and host guarantees

* feat: act on captain's away words during AFK supervision (#5076)

* feat(afk): make the captain's away words the whole mandate

Retire the clause fields, verb list, never-set scan, refused records, and
the per-task merge-grant list from the away-posture record. The record is
now version 2: the captain's words verbatim plus expected return, spend
cap, and reach line; a version 1 record still validates, reads, and
archives so a live away window is never broken by the upgrade.

The supervision branch reads the words at the tail of every wake and acts
on them by its own judgment through the guarded scripts under standing
authority, never by analogy, holding for the return on doubt, and opens
each such outcome summary with "per your away instructions:" so the
return brief can render the words beside the session's account. While the
record exists any green merge runs under away authority (ledger tag
"away"); red merges, --allow-red, asynchronous and queued merges, and
local-only landing stay refused. The branch may file a backlog item the
words explicitly call for before dispatching it under the spend cap.

Tests drive fm-afk-contract.sh, fm-afk-launch.sh, fm-afk-return.sh, and
fm-pr-merge.sh as commands: version 2 written, version 1 read, retired
flags and subcommands refused by name, green merges landing under the
record, red and waived-red refused, the record lock still closing the
authority-read window, and the Pi away tail carrying the words.

* no-mistakes(review): carry the away read-back to the session verbatim

* no-mistakes(review): match the exact away-action marker in the return brief

* no-mistakes(review): refuse a words block truncated by a damaged line

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-role contract documentation

* fix(bin): render the remote charter's steering-inbox path host-local (#5049)

* fix(bin): render the remote charter's steering-inbox path host-local

A freshly provisioned remote secondmate read a parent-home absolute
steering-inbox path in its charter - a location that exists on no route -
and spent its first turn discovering the gap and filing a blocked
decision for what was a render defect. The seed's remote-copy rewrite now
maps the inbox to the route's host-local parent-route inbox, exactly as
it already maps the reply-log path, so every mention - bare path, listing,
and handled/ acknowledgement - lands host-local.

Both rewrites also become plain assignments, because a quoted substitution
nested inside a double-quoted printf argument leaks literal quotes into
the replacement text on stock macOS bash. The lifecycle suite pins the
corrected render both directions against the real seed, provisioning,
and delivery route, sharing one fixture value between the render truth
and the delivery truth.

Closes #5012

* no-mistakes(document): document remote charter's host-local steering inbox

* feat: route Lavish feedback directly to owning workers (#5099)

* feat(procevent): route worker-owned Lavish rounds

* no-mistakes(review): drop duplicate artifact field from task-owned registration

* no-mistakes(review): post worker reply once, fix ring label, keep re-arm atomic

* no-mistakes(review): keep worker board owned until terminal round acknowledged

* no-mistakes(review): refuse every retirement of an open worker-owned round

* no-mistakes(review): use real lavish reply flag, isolate reply generations

* no-mistakes(review): drop .posted marker for best-effort reply posting

* no-mistakes(review): consume staged reply after listener setup, refuse orphaned captures

* no-mistakes(review): require a reachable owner, redeliver open rounds, roll back failed re-arms

* no-mistakes(review): re-arm only to acknowledge an open round

* no-mistakes(review): conclude only a still-open terminal round

* no-mistakes(review): record the acknowledgement before retiring the board

* no-mistakes(review): retain the registration across a conclude, qualify terminal docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document worker-owned Lavish round lifecycle

* fix(bin): fit pull observation within the contribution poll budget (#5107)

* fix(bin): reserve contribution observation budget

* no-mistakes(review): Strengthen slow-read regression test to exceed the poll budget

* feat(bin): add idempotent inbox capture, replies, receipts, and readiness JSON (#5103)

* feat(bin): add idempotent inbox orders, receipts, replies, and readiness

Let a caller supply a request id when publishing a captain inbox note so a
retry returns the original note instead of creating a second one, including
across the crash window between save and wake announcement. Separate saved
from announced so a failed wake is repairable without enqueueing again.
Add bounded receipts JSON with omission disclosure, a durable primary reply
against a note id, and a read-only readiness projection that can say
unknown instead of inferring liveness from a lock file.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(bin): honest inbox announce, reply cursor, and readiness verdict

* fix(bin): resolve ready from lock-holder ancestry; drop lock status --json

Remove the extra JSON surface from fm-lock.sh so its human status still
always exits zero. Have the readiness projection classify the inspected
home from the lock-holder pid via fm-harness.sh ancestry, with an explicit
FM_SUPERVISION_MODEL still winning and an unknown model when there is no
holder. Prove the yes path when that ancestry names a known harness.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden inbox announce, receipts reads, and reply sequence cursor

* no-mistakes(document): Note read-only lock inspection in scripts inventory

* no-mistakes(lint): Pass missing id argument to malformed-reply test printf

---------

Co-authored-by: cliflacata-svg <304148223+cliflacata-svg@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): stop harness footer rows below a composer from reading as pending text (#5118)

* fix(composer): stop a harness footer row from reading as a composer holding text

A harness draws its own furniture below the composer - a user statusLine, a
permission-mode hint - and the cursorless "bottom-most shape wins" rule looks
exactly there. `→` (U+2192) is Cursor's prompt glyph but ordinary text
everywhere else, so a statusLine opening with `→` was selected as a bare
composer, swallowed the hint row beneath it as wrapped input, and answered
`pending` on a visibly empty pane. `fm_task_inbox_ring` defers on exactly that
verdict, and `bin/fm-watch.sh`'s re-ring calls the same function, so the first
doorbell and every retry were skipped and the worker never saw the steer.

Measured live on 2026-09-20: three of five Claude Code 2.1.236 worker panes on
Herdr 0.8.0 had genuinely empty composers and every one of them was refused.

A separator pair that closed over a bare agent-glyph row is a proven composer
container, so the contiguous non-blank rows below its closing rule are that
composer's footer and are no longer composer candidates. The demotion is bounded
by all three of its own preconditions: a blank row ends the zone, a pair that
closed over no glyph row demotes nothing, and a shape with no separator pair at
all (Cursor's half-block rules) is untouched. Real unsubmitted text in that same
composer, including a stray SGR mouse report left by a click in the pane, still
reads `pending`.

Pinned by two portable regressions and by a new cursorless arm on the live
composer-matrix guard, which re-reads each harness's already-proven-idle pane
the way every non-tmux backend reads it and fails naming the harness and
version when that read is `pending`.

* no-mistakes(review): make composer footer-zone demotion shape-independent

* no-mistakes(review): make footer-zone demotion refuse-only and drop rescan

* no-mistakes(lint): quote probe-absent sentinel to clear ShellCheck SC2100

---------

Co-authored-by: Koen Muller <koen@catapult.nl>

* feat(bin): append optional home-local include to briefs (#5115)

Co-authored-by: guanchengh-lgtm <271917158+guanchengh-lgtm@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): report a branch with no validation run as absent instead of an unreadable runs table (#5114)

* fix(bin): stop misreading a no-run branch as an unreadable runs table

Defect: when `no-mistakes axi status`'s overview is truncated (a task's
own branch has zero rows among the shown ones), fm_nm_select_run's
Python fallback derived the repo identity for its direct SQLite query
from a `repo: <path>` line it expected in the overview text. The real
CLI never emits that line, truncated or not (see the genuine capture at
tests/captures/no-mistakes-v1.70.1/overview.toon, which has only
`count:`/`runs[...]:`), so the lookup always failed and reported
"unreadable runs table" for a task that simply has no run on its
branch. On a fleet with many concurrent runs, every idle-branch task
hits the truncated-overview path routinely, so this fired every few
minutes and drowned genuine unreadable/blocked verdicts in noise.

Fix: derive the repo identity from the task worktree path instead,
which is exactly the value `no-mistakes` records as a repo's
`working_path` (confirmed against the existing capped-overview test
fixtures, which already register repos by worktree path). A worktree
path that is not absolute cannot be matched and still reads as
unreadable rather than being guessed at. Also raise the reader's
SQLite busy timeout from 1s to 30s so ordinary lock contention on a
busy fleet cannot masquerade as an unreadable database.

Safety: every other verdict byte-for-byte unchanged - the repo lookup
still requires exactly one matching row (a genuinely corrupt or
mismatched repos table still reports unreadable, per the existing
`repo` failure-mode test), the branch query and row validation are
untouched, and a zero-row result for the branch still flows through
the same recursive re-parse that already turns an empty `runs[0]{...}`
table into `absent`. Added a regression test
(test_capped_overview_without_repo_line_and_no_runs_reports_absent)
that reproduces the real overview shape - capped, zero rows for the
task's branch, no `repo: ` line - and asserts the crew state falls
through to the pane/busy verdict instead of reporting unknown or
"unreadable". Full fm-crew-state.test.sh suite passes unchanged
otherwise.

* fix: recovered same-branch inventory awk misreads empty result as unreadable

fm_nm_select_run's deep SQLite reader rebuilds a `count:`/`runs[...]:`
overview and re-runs it through the same awk selection pass. When that
rebuilt inventory has zero rows for the branch, the row-matching loop never
executes, so its counters (`seen`) stay at awk's uninitialized empty string
while `expected` and `shown` are plain strings parsed from the header text.
Comparing an uninitialized value against a non-numeric string uses string
comparison, so "" != "0" is true, and the END block takes the "unreadable
runs table" branch instead of falling through to the correct "absent"
verdict for a branch with genuinely zero runs.

Coerce the affected END comparisons with `+0` so they are always numeric,
matching seen/expected/shown/total regardless of whether awk classified
them as strings or numeric strings. A truncated or genuinely malformed
inventory still differs numerically and still reports unreadable.

* no-mistakes(review): bound capped-overview inventory reader and canonicalize worktree lookup

* no-mistakes(review): match recorded repo path first, tolerate duplicate spellings

* no-mistakes(review): revert repo lookup to exact working_path match

* no-mistakes(document): note state-db inventory read under crew-state nm timeout

* fix(bin): require a non-draft pull request before a PR-based done report (#5141)

* fix(bin): require a non-draft pull request before a PR-based done report

A PR-based ship could report done, and merge monitoring could be armed, while the pull request was still a draft. A draft cannot be merged, so the poll waited for an event that could not occur and nobody was asked to merge.

The PR-based definitions of done now require reading the pull request back from the forge and confirming it is not a draft, and a lane that deliberately holds a draft declares a wait instead of done.
bin/fm-pr-check.sh refuses to arm merge monitoring on a draft, naming the draft state, and treats an unreadable draft state as before.
The draft reading now lives in bin/fm-pr-lib.sh and bin/fm-pr-merge.sh uses it, with its refusal to merge a draft unchanged.

Closes #4757

* fix(review): Skip arm-time draft refusal when fm-pr-merge records metadata

* fix: support quota-axi schema 6 snapshots (#4904)

* fix(bin): accept quota-axi schema 6 snapshots keyed by provider + accountKey

quota-axi 0.1.47 emits schemaVersion 6 once a provider expands to more
than one account: every provider row carries an accountKey and one
provider id may appear on several rows. fm_quota_json_valid accepted
only schema 5 with unique provider ids, so fm-dispatch-resolve.sh,
fm-quota-choose.sh, and fm-procevent-quota.sh all rejected the live
snapshot and quota-informed dispatch was dead against the current tool.

- bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: the validator accepts schema 6 with
  accountKey required on every row and uniqueness on
  provider + accountKey; schema 5 keeps its exact rules. FM_QUOTA_ROW_JQ
  is the one join every consumer uses: schema 5 binds by provider alone,
  schema 6 binds to the row keyed by the candidate's Pi lane, else the
  provider's default row, else no row (unmeasured, never blocked, never
  by position or summed across accounts).
- bin/fm-quota-choose.sh: accepts schema 6 JSON and the TOON accountKey
  column, and joins through the shared function.
- bin/fm-dispatch-resolve.sh and bin/fm-procevent-quota.sh: join through
  the shared function; an expanded provider with no row for the
  candidate's account is reported as such.
- tests: schema 6 fixtures shaped like the real snapshot, each paired
  with a schema 5 case on the same path; every new case fails on the
  previous scripts and passes now.
- docs: the two sentences naming the row join describe the schema 6 key.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix native Codex quota and expanded provider watches

* no-mistakes(review): Align native Codex account matching across dispatch paths

* no-mistakes(document): Align quota documentation with account-aware snapshots

* no-mistakes(document): Align quota dispatch documentation with account matching

* fix(bin): keep CI lint and the quota watch test portable

- bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: FM_QUOTA_ROW_JQ is read only by the scripts
  that source this library, so full-mode ShellCheck reported SC2034 on
  the assignment; mark it alongside the existing SC2016 disable.
- tests/fm-procevent-quota.test.sh: the schema 6 provider-watch
  assertions used rg, which CI runners do not install, so the case
  failed with 'rg: command not found' rather than on behavior; use grep
  like the rest of the file.

* no-mistakes(document): Documented schema-version account-row compatibility

* test: fix Claude session-start drain live E2E (#5165)

* test: repair Claude live auto-arm regression

* no-mistakes(review): Assert SessionStart digest completeness within its hook_response event

* no-mistakes(document): Consolidate Claude live verification references

* ci: pin the no-mistakes required check to v1.80.1 (#5195)

Roll the shared require-no-mistakes action to the tagged v1.80.1 SHA and grant pull-requests: read so the check can read PR bodies.

* fix(bin): retain Pi watcher predecessor to stop false down alarms (#5174)

* fix: preserve Pi watcher ownership across session replacement

* no-mistakes(document): Scope Pi predecessor retention away from omp

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed all three failing checks; only one was code-caused. (ci-3, genuine) Stock macOS Bash snapshot compatibility: `tests/fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh` failed the macOS Bash 3.2 `bash -n` parse sweep with `line 4265: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '`. I built GNU Bash 3.2.0 from source locally and reproduced it. Root cause: the PR added a comment containing an apostrophe (`// Replacement shutdown deliberately retains module 2's established arm until`) inside a quoted here-document (`<<'EOF'`) nested inside a `$(...)` command substitution. Bash 3.2 has a parser bug (fixed in later bash) where an unmatched single quote inside such a here-doc body is treated as opening a shell quote and never closed, aborting the whole file parse. The base commit parses cleanly under Bash 3.2, confirming this PR introduced the break. Minimal fix: reworded the comment to remove the apostrophe (`... retains the established module-2 arm until`), preserving meaning. Verified `bin/fm-lint.sh --list-files` (the 6 changed shell files) now all pass `/tmp/bash-3.2/bash -n`; Bash 5 also parses. (ci-1, infrastructure) Behavior portable serial 8: GitHub API shows the `Run portable serial shard 8` step conclusion=success; only `Upload portable serial shard 8 timing artifact` failed with `Failed to FinalizeArtifact ... (403) Forbidden`. This is a transient artifact-service/cancellation failure, not a test or code failure. No change. (ci-2, infrastructure) Lint 1: fetched the job log via the GitHub API; it ends with `##[error]The runner has received a shutdown signal...` then exit 143. The step was cancelled mid-run, not a ShellCheck finding. Independently ran `bin/fm-lint.sh --partition 1of2 --telemetry ...` locally with pinned ShellCheck 0.11.0 and actionlint 1.7.12: exited rc=0 (no findings). No change. The only code change is the apostrophe removal in tests/fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh; no other files modified

* fix(bin): allow cleanup of windowless legacy task records (#5236)

* fix(bin): retire windowless leftovers and stop claiming a Pi daemon teardown

Catch-up correctly refuses while a leftover task record has no status file.
Cleanup used to deadlock on those same records when they also had no spawn_gen and no window, so they lingered and wedged every later away-mode return. Teardown now treats a windowless leftover as a missing-endpoint legacy record, and stop reports that no daemon terminal was running when none was launched.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Narrow windowless teardown exception to tmux legacy leftovers

* no-mistakes(review): Validate windowless leftover identity via shared endpoint validator

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse windowless leftovers carrying other backends' endpoint identity

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify windowless teardown retry documentation

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* ci: exempt kunchenguid from the no-mistakes required check (#5256)

* fix(bin): surface launches parked on an interactive prompt as not-started (#5250)

* fix: surface parked launch prompts as not started

* no-mistakes(document): docs: record launch-prompt busy backstop classification

* no-mistakes(document): docs: align tail40 and rendered-text comments with launch-prompt backstop

* fix: record away posture immediately on /afk (#5260)

* feat(afk): make /afk itself the go with a same-turn record write

Collapse the propose-then-confirm away entry into one 'enter' step that
writes state/.afk-contract immediately and prints the announcement and
read-back after the record exists, never asking for a go. The retired
propose, confirm, and --proposal inputs are refused by name, and a stale
proposal left by an older version is removed rather than promoted.
Refresh and replace semantics, verbatim words, the single writer, the
never-set, and per-harness launch behavior are unchanged.

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-entry documentation evidence

* fix(bin): recognize passed-with-override as a passing outcome (#5294)

* fix(bin): map passed-with-override to done instead of unknown

no-mistakes' axi status emits outcome: passed-with-override for a run
that finished with an explicitly approved Test or CI exception. Both
bin/fm-crew-state.sh's outcome resolver and bin/fm-teardown.sh's
pre-teardown terminal-run check only matched the literal passed and
checks-passed tokens, so this outcome fell through to unknown/parked
and a finished worker awaiting merge kept getting re-alerted as stale,
while an abort race during teardown could also leave a finished run
misreported as still parked.

Map passed-with-override to the same done/terminal handling as a
clean passed in both places.

* fix(document): Replace stale outcome mapping with authoritative pointer

* fix(ci): Fixed a pre-existing mock-clock race in tests/fm-contributions.test.sh by advancing time only during the serial issue read. Reproduced the exact CI failure before fixing it. Forced-race replay, all 38 contribution scenarios, scoped ShellCheck, Bash syntax, and diff checks pass. Only the test fixture changed; CI rerun remains with the outer executor

* fix: clean up workers after their pull requests land (#5317)

* fix: close landed workers from supervision in both postures and at return

During the 2026-09-22 away window every exemption worker whose pull request
had merged was left sitting for nine hours. The supervision branch received
the stale wake, the merge-landed check, and the hourly inactive-outcome row
for each of them, ran the recovery playbook, found nothing to recover, and
reported "no further action". The branch prompt granted ordinary teardown of
a confirmed-landed task without ever naming the moment or the command, and
the playbook has no landed exit, so the stale path ended at "nothing to
recover". The return brief then listed only blockers, decisions, and the
latest five routine outcomes, so the landed workers stayed invisible after
the captain came back.

- bin/fm-branch-prompt.sh: name the merge-landed wake, and any later stale,
  inactive-outcome, or heartbeat row on a done task with a merged PR, as the
  moment to claim the lease and run bin/fm-teardown.sh with no flags; a
  refusal is reported, never forced or worked around. Add teardown to the
  handling tool list.
- stuck-crewmate-recovery: a landed worker is not a recovery case; point at
  the ordinary teardown owner for each actor.
- bin/fm-afk-return.sh: render a "Landed, cleanup due" section from durable
  records only (a live task record whose recorded PR carries the
  merge-notification marker), between could-not-fix and handled, without
  holding the gate; the afk skill's return step closes each listed task
  through ordinary teardown once the check clears.
- tests: pin the prompt rule in fm-branch-supervision and the brief section
  in fm-afk-return through the real marker writer.

* no-mistakes(document): Document landed-task cleanup ownership

* fix: surface green no-mistakes PRs awaiting merge (#5327)

* fix(bin): surface a green no-mistakes PR still in ci merge monitoring

A green PR could sit unreported because neither the worker nor the
supervisor could observe checks-green while the ci step kept monitoring
for the merge.

Supervisor read: fm_nm_select_run's capped-overview inventory reader looked
the repository up by the task worktree path, but no-mistakes registers a
repository once by its main clone path and resolves every linked worktree
to it, so on every task copy of a busy repo the lookup matched no row and
each read reported "complete same-branch run inventory unreadable". Key the
lookup on the overview's own top-level `repo:` line, which every axi
release emits as the resolved working_path.

Even with a readable run, the ci-log classifier treated "base branch
advanced ..., re-arming CI monitor timeout" as not-ready. The monitor logs
a checks state only when it changes and a base advance does not clear
readiness, so a green PR read as still validating for as long as main kept
advancing. Stop treating that line as a marker, matching no-mistakes' own
ci-log parser, and name the run's PR URL in the held-for-merge reading so
the existing inactive-outcome path can act on it without a worker report.

Worker contract: `axi status` never reports checks-passed while the ci
step monitors for merge, so the definition of done no longer makes a
status poll the wait for the next gate or outcome; the drive call's own
return is the green signal, reattached with `no-mistakes axi run` after a
bounded return.

* no-mistakes(review): read the full ci log when checking checks-green

* no-mistakes(review): correct stale ci log tail wording in docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document checks-green supervisor fallback

* fix: derive Lavish polling route from board session (#5334)

* fix: derive Lavish polling server from its board session

* no-mistakes(document): Document session-derived Lavish polling

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Lavish routing verification claims

* fix(bin): stop secondmate relaunch failing when watcher scratch files vanish (#4900)

* fix(bin): ignore vanished state scratch files on secondmate relaunch

Relaunch refused when find(1) exited non-zero while listing a secondmate
home's state directory. A live watcher can delete scratch files between
readdir and processing, which is not evidence that child *.meta records
are unreadable.

Prove the directory is listable from its mode and keep the existing
readable-meta loop as the child-record guarantee. Fixes #4765.

* no-mistakes(review): Skip chmod-000 unlistable-state relaunch test when running as root

* fix(bin): stop each keyed answer from re-waking this home (#4907)

* fix(bin): treat home-owned status closes as already read

Self-announced bookkeeping appends now record their exact byte ranges.
Later drains and signal scans skip those ranges, so two distinct
--resolve-key answers after an OPEN DECISIONS fold do not each wake the
supervisor. Worker-authored lines outside that ledger still signal.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep owned closes in unread status; lock ledger writes

* no-mistakes(review): Drop fold-lag wake suppression so folded worker decisions still wake

* no-mistakes(review): Require real owned growth before ledger marks status seen

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify home-appends ledger scope versus UNREAD STATUS

* no-mistakes(review): Restore fold-lag path, drop owned-range filters, fix test

* no-mistakes(review): Align ledger docs and scope ledger to wake path only

* no-mistakes(review): Restore stranded historical-annotation test comment to its function

* no-mistakes(review): Retire the home-appends lock alongside its ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Note ledger's lock-helper dependency in classify library

* no-mistakes(review): Append-and-coalesce home-appends ledger; fix stamped-line assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Drop redundant empty-span branch; make owned test pin ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Document covers' ascending-order dependency on home-appends ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Note owned-append skip in watcher signal-scan comment

* fix: deliver failed public follow-ups with updated AXI floors (#5350)

* chore(bin): raise tasks-axi, quota-axi, and lavish-axi floors to latest

Raise the minimum versions to tasks-axi 0.2.6, quota-axi 0.1.50, and
lavish-axi 0.1.77, pin CI's tasks-axi install to 0.2.6, and move the
floor-boundary test fixtures to the new versions.

tasks-axi 0.2.6 makes a failed relation deliverable for a promised-final
expecting pr-merged, so add the regression test: a bound work that ends
failed reports its honest outcome text through fm-public-followup-emit.sh,
consume marks the commitment ready, and deliver posts that text exactly
once.

Also make two hang-guard tests in fm-backlog-atomicity portable to hosts
without coreutils timeout, and stop an installed herdr from leaking into
the secondmate-liveness husk classifier test.

* no-mistakes(review): drop out-of-scope bounded_run hang-guard helper from atomicity test

* no-mistakes(review): pin quota-axi floor at 0.1.49 across fixtures

* no-mistakes(document): Document failed public-followup delivery behavior

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated quota-axi floor and all 0.1.49 fixtures to 0.1.51, corrected bootstrap boundaries to 0.1.51/0.1.52/0.1.50, and bumped the bearings lavish-axi stub to 0.1.77. Bearings, quota procevent, quota chooser, startup budget, and bootstrap floor coverage passed; the full bootstrap suite exceeded the 240-second local command limit after relevant checks passed. git diff --check passed

* fix(bin): refuse ship done: when the named head exists only in the worker copy (#4878)

* fix(bin): refuse ship done: when the named head lives only in the worker copy

A ship done: is not current-state done until that exact commit is reachable
outside the disposable copy. The check tests the named head, not whether
some branch moved.

* fix(bin): gate CI-ready ship done: on named-head reachability, not handoff

Keep no-mistakes' first done: as the pipeline handoff, apply the same shared
check when registering a PR and when a secondmate publishes ledger-first,
treat a recorded merged PR as landed after prune, and name the PR head
instead of scanning free-text SHAs.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind named-head gate to recorded PR and forge heads

* no-mistakes(review): Gate direct-PR forge heads and keep pending ledger deliveries

* no-mistakes(review): Align worker done wording, test mapping, pending-retry test

* no-mistakes(test): Raise watcher test time limit to stop load flake

* no-mistakes(document): Restore ledger-path fact and name named-head gate coverage

* ci: re-attest named-head ship-done gate for a fresh serial-3 verdict

* no-mistakes(review): Simplify local-only gate, gate keyed done lines, document recovery

* no-mistakes(document): Name fm-crew-state among named-head gate callers

* fix(bin): ring a proven-idle secondmate before raising a wake-loop stall alarm (#5204)

* fix(bin): ring a proven-idle secondmate before a wake-loop stall alarm

A leftover foreign-queue row on an idle, alive, ring-safe mate is still drainable in that home. Ring once, reset the observation interval, and keep the parent alarm for unknown, busy, or still-frozen rows.

* no-mistakes(review): Mark drain steer with from-firstmate fire-and-forget carrier

* test(watch-arm): size re-arm waits off the real loaded recovery cost (#5335)

The re-arm recovery cases judged "the watcher stayed live instead of
surfacing recovery" with fixed budgets below what a real stale-lock
recovery costs on a contended host: the arm's default 10s confirmation
deadline, a start helper that returned after about 4s whether or not the
arm had confirmed its watcher, and an 80-poll exit wait.
A changed-suite run beside other suites starves the recovery's many
short-lived processes while this suite's sleeping poll loops keep their
pace, so a watcher still surfacing its recovery read as one that stayed
live (issue #3793).
The original 0.25s window after confirmation was widened to 80 polls in
#3837, which left the same race at a larger size.

Following the CONTRIBUTING.md fixture-budget rule, the re-arm helper now
gives the arm an explicit 30s confirmation budget and waits for its
confirmation or exit within a ceiling that outlasts it, and every wait on
a re-armed watcher uses one named iteration-counted ceiling that outlasts
the same budget.
A passing case returns as soon as the arm reports or exits, and a watcher
that never surfaces its recovery still fails.

A new case delays every mktemp and readlink the re-armed watcher runs
after it publishes its beacon, so its first poll and exit take about 13s
on any host.
It fails with the reported symptom on the previous budgets and passes now.
No bin/ change.

* fix: stop watchers reliably during blocked polls (#5362)

* fix(bin): let one TERM always stop the watcher on bash 5.2

Bash 5.2 runs a pending trap from the parser entry of the next command
substitution it expands, where the trap body is parsed as the inside of
that substitution and fails ("trap: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking
for matching `)'") or is dropped silently, consuming the signal. The
watcher's `trap 'exit 1' HUP INT TERM` could therefore ignore a TERM and
keep polling while its stopper waited: the triage suite's reap waited
forever (CI jobs cancelled at 30 minutes), and the arm's signal path and
the away-mode daemon's shutdown wait for the watcher the same way.
Bash 5.3 fixed the parser; 5.2 is the stock bash on Ubuntu 24.04.

HUP and TERM now keep bash's native fatal-signal handling, which runs the
EXIT trap (watcher_cleanup) and exits on bash 3.2, 5.2, and 5.3. INT keeps
its trap because bash ignores a direct SIGINT while a child runs. The
check-spawn deferral window no longer contains a command substitution.

The triage suite's reap is now bounded and fails the case within 10s with
process evidence instead of hanging the job, and a new regression test
proves TERM stops a watcher blocked inside a poll's pane capture and still
releases its lock and records an acknowledgeable stop.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify watcher stop-signal documentation

* fix: submit stuck inbox doorbells instead of skipping them (#5374)

* fix(bin): submit our own stuck doorbell instead of skipping every later ring

* no-mistakes(review): Confirm and retry Enter once on stuck-doorbell submit

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify doorbell retry and pending-composer documentation

* feat: add opt-in fleet activity ledger (#5375)

* feat(bin): add the opt-in fleet activity ledger

Homes that create config/fleet-ledger get an append-only JSONL file,
state/fleet-ledger.jsonl, recording task.dispatched, task.status,
task.merged, and task.cleaned_up so outside tools can follow a fleet.
With the flag absent each producer does one file test and nothing else.
docs/fleet-ledger.md owns the record contract and its documented limits.

* no-mistakes(review): Record task.status text verbatim after the first colon

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify fleet ledger status and setup documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed a timing race in tests/fm-pi-branch-extension.test.sh: the replacement-wake test now waits for the prompt to start before releasing it. The focused test passed twice, and git diff --check passed

* fix: validate public follow-up deliverables and wake on rejection (#5352)

* fix(bin): format, validate, and surface public-followup deliverables

brief pre-fills report_path=data/<work-id>/report.md and states the accepted
format of every value it cannot know instead of a bare <value> placeholder.
fm-public-followup-emit.sh refuses a deliverable tasks-axi would refuse, in
both the direct and staged destinations, naming the key, value, and format.
consume records the specific deliverable, outcome, or missing key behind a
tasks-axi refusal, and each refusal wakes the owning home once through the
existing relay poll.

* no-mistakes(review): refuse emits missing a required deliverable in both destinations

* no-mistakes(review): require promised deliverables and keep rejections recoverable

* no-mistakes(review): mirror tasks-axi's canonical pull request URL rule

* no-mistakes(review): keep a rejection wake whose line cannot be read

* no-mistakes(review): key emit-time rules on the promise, not the outcome

* no-mistakes(review): bound deliverable keys and values as tasks-axi does

* no-mistakes(review): state rejection wakes as at-least-once and pin it

* no-mistakes(review): enforce the promised contract tasks-axi holds at emit

* no-mistakes(review): stop inferring a staged promise from its outcome

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh public follow-up documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both CI flakes. Watcher cleanup is now installed before singleton acquisition, preventing timeout races from leaving stale locks while preserving recovery-failure evidence. Bearings render fixtures now publish a valid isolated Lavish session store and retire each listener after rendering, eliminating false unowned-source races. Verified with checkpoint stress, fm-watch-checkpoint, fm-watcher-lock, repeated fm-bearings-board-render runs, project lint, syntax checks, and git diff checks

* Revert unrelated CI auto-fix edits to the watcher and bearings board test

The CI step's automatic repair changed bin/fm-watch.sh and
tests/fm-bearings-board-render.test.sh to chase two intermittent CI
failures that also occur on main and are not part of this change. Restore
both files so this branch carries only the public-followup deliverable fix.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse a repeated --deliverable key at emit argument parsing

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify public-followup validation and rejection-wake documentation

* feat: add Devin CLI crewmate and scout adapter (#5380)

* Add verified Devin CLI worker adapter

* no-mistakes(review): Drop Devin resolver refusal and launch marker

* no-mistakes(review): Verify devin in bootstrap, fold kind rule, update docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document Devin sidecar, resume, and worker-only facts

* no-mistakes(document): Document Devin interrupt, liveness anchor, composer signals

* fix(control): never pair Devin interrupt presses on an idle agent

A fast double Escape on an idle Devin opens its /revert picker, where Enter
reverts file changes. fm-control now sends the second press only after the
first renders Devin's 'esc again to interrupt' armed hint, never sooner than
0.5 s, closes a revert picker a mistimed press opened with one Escape, and
refuses to type the exit command while that picker is open. An unarmed
interrupt reports cancel=not-running and leaves the busy record untouched.

* fix(devin): disable Claude hook import and commit attribution for workers

The per-task Devin config now forces read_config_from.claude=false, so a
worker no longer runs the user's or project's Claude Code hooks (including
Herdr's Claude agent-state hook), and attribution=false, so Devin adds no
Co-Authored-By trailer or Generated-with line to commits and PRs.

* test(devin): extend live guard and record Herdr and revert-picker evidence

The credentialed live guard now fails if an imported Claude Code hook runs,
if the worker's commit carries Devin attribution, if an idle interrupt sends
more than one press or opens the revert picker, or if an open picker lets
exit through or is closed with a revert. The Devin reference, agent-control
doc, and verification records carry the 2026-09-22 tmux and Herdr lab results,
including the Herdr exit refusal.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Devin documentation links and lifecycle guidance

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Co-authored-by: Denis Beliaev <battler73@yandex.ru>

* fix(bin): recognize passed-with-skips as a passing outcome (#5322)

fm-crew-state classifies the no-mistakes outcome 'passed-with-skips' as
unknown, so a finished worker awaiting merge is re-alerted as stale. The
same blind spot lets fm-teardown's pre-teardown terminal-run check refuse
a legitimate abort race that lands on this outcome.

Map passed-with-skips to done in crew-state resolution, keeping the
skipped publication/CI verification visible in the detail rather than
reporting a clean pass, and recognize it as terminal during teardown.

* fix(bin): refuse unavailable backend adapters before sourcing (#5382)

* fix: refuse missing backend adapter before source

* no-mistakes(review): Gate backend precheck under stock Bash

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify adapter precheck docs

* no-mistakes(lint): Suppress intentional child Bash ShellCheck warning

* test: repair base-red liveness, export-DOM, and wake-queue self-tests (#5338)

* fix(test): repair tmux liveness and calm follow-up loaded_off regressions

Both self-tests fail on untouched main on a host whose coreutils are a
multicall binary and whose Chrome has no pre-warmed profile, and each failure
masks the other's file.

tests/fm-tmux-agent-liveness.test.sh - the stand-in harness processes were
symlinks to the host's `sleep`. A single-purpose `sleep` runs happily under
another name, but a multicall coreutils binary (uutils or busybox) resolves its
applet from argv[0]: `claude-link -> sleep` invoked under the harness name runs
the wrong applet and exits immediately, so no foreground process exists and
every positive case reads not-alive ("last verdict for liveness:agent was
missing (expected alive); title=sh comms=[sh ]"). Build a dedicated spinner as
the stand-in target, exactly the way the version-string case already builds its
executable, and require the fallback target to demonstrably survive the rename
before using it. Every assertion is untouched; the stand-in identity signal is
unchanged (the kernel still records the symlink name as the executable
identity).

tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh - render_export_dom pinned a brand-new
`--user-data-dir` per attempt. On Google Chrome for Testing 151.0.7922.34 that
pristine profile makes Chrome's first-run initialization never complete: the
browser and its renderers start, but --dump-dom never returns, so all three
bounded attempts end exit=0 timed_out=yes bytes=0 and the DOM assertions never
run ("could not render calm-mode HTML export DOM"). Chrome's own profile
creation under a fresh HOME renders the same document in about a second, so the
helper now gives Chrome a private per-attempt HOME instead of the explicit
profile flag. Each attempt still gets an isolated profile, and every DOM
assertion is unchanged.

Root-cause evidence: a pristine --user-data-dir with `--headless=new
--dump-dom` had not returned after 150s, while the same command with an empty
HOME and no --user-data-dir returned the full DOM in ~1s, and reusing an
already-populated profile also returned it in ~1s. The render failure masked
the rest of the file: with it repaired, the Pi follow-up loaded_off case passes
unmodified against an installed @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent package.

These two failures block downstream validation of every lane on hosts with
multicall coreutils or a fresh Chrome profile.

Verification:
- timeout 300 bash tests/fm-tmux-agent-liveness.test.sh -> exit 0, 16 assertions ok
- timeout 700 bash tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh -> exit 0, 13 assertions ok,
  including the Pi operational follow-up loaded_off case
- bash -n and shellcheck clean on both touched files
- rest of tests/: bin/fm-test-run.sh --all bounded by timeout 900 completed 17 files with 0 failures (fm-afk-contract.test.sh through fm-backend-herdr-launcher-workspace-e2e.test.sh), then the bound cut off the 18th (fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh, a real-herdr-gated lab test) with no failure recorded

* fix(test): give wake-queue observation checkpoints the alerting ceiling

tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh's secondmate stall case runs bounded foreground
watcher checkpoints whose job is to record an observation, with the alerting
checkpoint that follows asserting the stall. A checkpoint's exit publishes a
downtime marker, and the next checkpoint consumes it only by reaching the end of
the watcher's poll loop, where the recovery surfacing runs after the stall tick;
the observation itself is recorded by that same stall tick. On a loaded host a
1s ceiling sits under the cost of that iteration (which includes a pane capture
in the active-turn gate), so the observation was never recorded, the downtime
marker stayed pending, and the alerting checkpoint surfaced
`check: rearm-resurface` instead of the stall it asserts:

  not ok - a foreign queue with no progress did not alert: check: rearm-resurface
  not ok - a frozen reprovisioned queue generation was hidden: check: rearm-resurface

Give the observation checkpoints that feed a later alert the same 4s ceiling the
file already documents for alerting checkpoints. The ceiling is only a bound - a
checkpoint still returns on its first actionable wake - so no assertion is
weakened, and the quiet windows get longer, not shorter.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: correct export-DOM Chrome render root cause

* no-mistakes(review): Isolate Chrome profile on macOS, dedupe tmux CC_BIN lookup

* chore: re-trigger fork workflow approval for triage

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Co-authored-by: Captain <blackxwhite88@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: kunchenguid <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: keep watcher status classification bounded to new log spans (#5383)

* fix(bin): classify a status span without re-folding the whole log

A watcher poll could take minutes, so its liveness beacon aged past the
guard's 300s grace and the Stop auto-arm reported the watcher down. On the
main home, cycles ended with beacon_age 91-235s while healthy and 534-706s
while the laptop was CPU-starved.

Cause: whenever a newly appended status span held a keyed needs-decision
or blocked line, status_span_first_actionable_record re-read and re-folded
the ENTIRE log to decide whether that opening was still live, forking
several subshells per line. On a remote second mate's mirrored parent
channel (1.2MB, ~2300 lines) that is 13-20k subshells, about 17s per log
per classification when idle, paid by every signal and heartbeat scan.

Nothing regressed recently: subshell counts per classification were
20,272 from #3268 (2026-08-29, which introduced the whole-log fold) and
13,188 from #3753 onward through HEAD. The cost grew with log size, since
parent-channel logs only grow.

Fix: fold only the captured span. An accepted opening does not depend on
earlier lines and only later lines close or supersede it, and every later
line lies inside the span, so the span fold names the same live openings
at a cost bounded by the span. Old and new classification outputs are
byte-identical across 51 span offsets of real-shaped secondmate and ship
logs.

A real-watcher regression test records every read the classification
makes through the span-reader seam and asserts none reaches before the
classified offset; it fails on the old code (5,157 bytes read from
offset 0 to classify an 84-byte span).

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify span classification and watcher regression coverage

* test: close pr-check watcher test gaps (original flake already fixed by #5362 and #4878) (#5381)

* test: fix watcher timing flakes in fm-pr-check-security

The bounded watcher's hang guard now counts only the watcher's own time: a
case marks the intervals where it holds the watcher on injected work or makes
it wait on concurrent work, and those no longer count against its budget. The
budget itself stays at main's sixty seconds. The helper also stops forcing a
one-second per-check timeout, which killed a correct merged poll whenever that
poll took longer than a second, so the watcher only retried it or exited on a
later check's wake without the merge.

The concurrent-publication case pauses the guard while its arming is in
flight, and its task now sorts before the contributions observer the arming
also registers, so the watcher stops on the poll under test before running
that unrelated fleet snapshot. The case also prints the watcher's stderr when
it fails.

The replacement case pauses the guard while the re-arm runs inside the
watcher, runs that injected arming with the fixture root every other arming
here uses, and waits on the replacement merge's process instead of a
two-second cap. Merged-poll runs retire the contributions observer before the
watcher starts, since no case here exercises it.

The returned-descendant case no longer races a four-second sleep or a TERM
landing at an arbitrary point in the watcher's idle loop: its descendant holds
until killed, and a second check in the same cycle witnesses that it was
drained and stops the watcher.

* no-mistakes(ci): Reproduced the intermittent board-render failure. Its Lavish stub listed an open session but omitted the session-state record required by the listener, so the build could race the listener’s exit. Added matching fixture state; the affected suite passed three consecutive runs, and shell syntax and diff checks passed

* Revert "no-mistakes(ci): Reproduced the intermittent board-render failure. Its Lavish stub listed an open session but omitted the session-state record required by the listener, so the build could race the listener’s exit. Added matching fixture state; the affected suite passed three consecutive runs, and shell syntax and diff checks passed"

This reverts commit 6a59859b2e2a3778f9b46faeea42d6de37468cd6.

* feat: record fleet status immediately and emit PR-ready events (#5385)

* feat: record task.pr_ready in the fleet ledger when a task PR is registered

* feat: record worker status lines in the fleet ledger as they are written

* no-mistakes(review): Keep worker status append failures and pass the resolved config to the ledger

* no-mistakes(review): Resolve relative config override before embedding in worker command

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify fleet ledger status capture timing

* test: synchronize foreign queue stall checks with watcher progress (#5386)

* test: synchronize foreign secondmate stall legs on the watcher's recorded observation

Each leg of test_secondmate_foreign_queue_stall_tracks_progress_and_alerts_once
ran the watcher under a 1s or 4s wall-clock checkpoint, but every later leg
depends on the progress observation the previous leg's watcher recorded. Under
load the watcher was killed before its first stall tick, the observation was
never written, and the next leg treated its own sighting as the first one, so
the stall alert never fired.

Run the watcher directly and end each leg on its observable outcome: the
progress marker recording the expected observation, or the watcher's own first
wake. Also move a comment orphaned above this test back to the drain liveness
test it describes.

* no-mistakes(review): Wait for full stall reset before stopping watcher leg

* test: isolate the bearings render fixture from the shared Lavish store (#5391)

The listener resolves its server from that store before it polls. Without a session for this bo…
…ession start (#12)

* feat(bin): defer the wedge escalation for a lane parked at a supervisor-owed gate (#4974)

* fix(watch): recheck a gate awaiting a human instead of wedge-escalating it

A lane whose validation run is parked at a gate waiting on a human
decision is correctly quiet, but nothing in its status line says so: the
evidence is the pipeline's own gate state rather than anything the worker
wrote. The wedge timer read that silence as a suspected wedge and climbed
the escalation ladder for as long as the wait lasted, and each escalation
cost a supervising turn. The landed declared-wait consult does not reach
it, because a live ordinary crewmate never reports a declared pause, and
raising FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS would delay genuine wedge detection for
every lane by the same amount.

The threshold now reads a second, independent record when the status line
accounts for nothing: whether the crew's current state is a gate whose
answer is owed by a human. That is minted only from the gate's own
findings table, by a row whose `action` column is exactly `ask-user`,
located by position out of the table header the way nm_gate_step_row
already reads its row - never searched for over the run payload, where a
finding's free-text description or a branch name satisfies a search just
as well. A gate awaiting the CREWMATE's own answer keeps the unchanged
escalation schedule, reason and demand-deep-inspection wording, because a
crewmate that goes quiet before answering its own gate is exactly the
wedge the ladder exists to catch.

Each kind of wait now carries the human it is on, the action that clears
it, and whether that human is the captain as data alongside the verdict,
rather than as wording chosen per branch where the recheck is written, so
the deferral cannot word one kind of wait as another and a new kind
cannot ship without deciding all of them. A parked gate has no written
record of when its wait began, so its recheck publishes no wait age at
all rather than one read from the quiet window this deferral resets on
every pass, which would report the same small number for a gate of any
age. Like every other captain-facing recheck here it is absorbed in
silence while the away-posture record exists, arming no throttle, so the
recheck is owed in full the moment the record is archived.

The consult runs only in the at-threshold branch that was about to
escalate, beside the worktree walk already there, and only for lanes
whose status line explained nothing.

Closes #3055

* no-mistakes(review): require an unanswered decision before deferring a parked gate

* no-mistakes(review): reset the away-silenced timer, fail-safe findings parse, US-joined wait records

* test(watch): pass the pane hash wedge_timer_check now takes

Upstream gave wedge_timer_check a sixth <pane-hash> argument for its
dead-record probe. The malformed-wait-record rounds drive the real function
directly, so they pass one, and stub fm_backend_agent_state to a live agent so
the probe that runs after a refused deferral keeps the unchanged ladder rather
than reading a backend the child shell has none of.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind parked-gate wait to its run, owe it firstmate

* no-mistakes(document): correct wait-kind count, crew-state reader scope, gate-key coupling

* feat(watch): make the parked-gate wait deferral opt-in

The wedge timer deferring a lane parked at a validation gate is new
supervision behaviour rather than a restored one, and it decides which
lanes give up the escalation ladder, so it now ships as a default-off
per-home option instead of changing every home on upgrade.

config/wedge-defer-parked-gate arms it. The flag is read before the
decision fold, so an unconfigured home spends no fold or current-state
read, writes no record, and keeps the unchanged escalation schedule,
reasons and demand-deep-inspection wording; a test counts the reader
calls in both directions to pin that.

It is not inherited by secondmate homes: each home supervises its own
crew and owns that trade separately, the same reason
config/turnend-churn-absorb is home-local.

The away-posture absorb returns to leaving the idle timer alone, which
it had restarted only because the costly consult could reach it. A
parked-gate wait is owed to the supervisor rather than the captain, so
it never enters that branch, and the recheck owed on return is again
owed in full the moment the record is archived.

* test(watch): pin that the away-silenced hold leaves the idle timer alone

The absorb no longer restarts the timer, so the recheck owed on return is
owed in full rather than a cadence into the return. Nothing asserted
that, so a restart could be reintroduced silently.

* no-mistakes(review): document away-silence rationale, pin captured gate component

* no-mistakes(test): anchor gate row scan to the braced findings header

* no-mistakes(document): pin same-block gate row invariant in crew-state comment

* fix(bin): reclaim a task whose herdr endpoint was destroyed (#5007)

* fix(control): let the owning seat reclaim a task whose endpoint is gone

A destroyed pane or workspace made `missing` a terminal state. Relaunch
accepted only `dead` and said to stop the agent first; exit refused
`missing` and said to reconcile the task first; there is no reconcile
verb. Each command named the other as its prerequisite, so a task whose
terminal went away could not be reclaimed by anything, and a no-mistakes
approval it was parked on had no seat left to answer it.

`missing` is agent-free a fortiori: there is no endpoint, so there is no
agent in it. Widen the existing guards rather than add a verb.

- fm-spawn --relaunch accepts a positively proven `missing` and creates
  one fresh endpoint in the recorded worktree; the record it already
  republishes rebinds the task to it. A `dead` endpoint is still adopted
  in place.
- fm-control exit reports `endpoint-gone` instead of dying, so the
  relaunch transaction's stop step no longer dead-ends, and re-resolves
  the endpoint from the record before verifying the replacement.

The duplicate-agent refusal is untouched: both verdicts come from the
same recovery-grade classifier, which claims `missing` only from positive
absence, so `alive`, `ambiguous`, and `unreadable` all still refuse. The
backends' own create paths refuse a live same-labeled endpoint as a
second independent guard. The worktree, its branch, commits, uncommitted
changes, armed poll and registration, record rows, and status log are all
untouched - a reclaim is a recovery, never a teardown.

A secondmate is excluded: its gone-endpoint recovery already has one
owner in the session-start liveness sweep, so relaunch refuses and names
it rather than becoming a second path to the same outcome.

Tests reproduce both halves of the deadlock, the reclaim succeeding,
unlanded work surviving it, and the refusals that still hold.

* no-mistakes(review): prove endpoint absence per backend before reclaim rebinds

* no-mistakes(review): give exit and relaunch one absence proof; pin herdr rebind session

* no-mistakes(review): narrow endpoint reclaim to herdr; tmux refuses honestly

* no-mistakes(review): stop refusals and docs asserting unestablished causes

* no-mistakes(review): stop herdr fixture helper losing tmp-root registration

* no-mistakes(review): document workspace drift and absence-probe server residue

* no-mistakes(review): correct rebind limitation to its one reachable case

* no-mistakes(review): stop claiming reclaim leaves instructions untouched

* no-mistakes(document): scope fm-control-lib purity claim, note reclaim coverage

* no-mistakes(rebase): read the staged launch file in the herdr fixture

Rebasing onto main picked up #4994, which stages a long worker launch
command into a script and delivers the short `. '<path>'` line instead of
the literal command. The tmux fake and tests/fixtures.sh were updated for
that; the herdr fake this branch adds was written before it and still
keyed "an agent now exists on this pane" off the literal
`encode launch-brief` text, so after the rebase it never marked the
rebound pane live and the reclaim's alive-wait read `dead`.

Dereference the staged file first, exactly as the tmux fake above does.
Test-fixture only; no production path changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(document): note reclaim placement in herdr and scripts inventories

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(bin): stamp status events with their emission time (#3764)

* test(status): reproduce missing event emission time

* wip(status): preserve optional event emission time

* test(status): document indirect clock stub invocation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve historical status bytes during reply recovery

* no-mistakes(test): Fix timestamped status assertions and remote fixture dependencies

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve captain regex overrides for timestamped status events

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify status event timing and publication contracts

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote literal done to satisfy ShellCheck

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, updated .github/workflows/ci.yml to expect 19 snapshot tests instead of 18, matching the PR’s added regression. Reproduced the failure before the fix. Stock Bash 3.2.57 verification passed: parse sweep, 19 snapshot tests, 53 Bearings tests, and the public-followup regression. Workflow lint and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(test): Preserve terminal notifications with malformed timestamp tags

* no-mistakes(test): Stamp Rovo spawn failures with emission time

* no-mistakes(document): Verify status event documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck quoting in status emission-time tests

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed four lifecycle assertions to accept emission timestamps while preserving publication and retry checks. Reproduced the CI failure before the fix. The lifecycle suite now passes with six Beads capability skips; syntax, targeted ShellCheck, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed malformed timestamp colons hiding actionable events using shared normalization. Original bytes and unknown ages are preserved. Regression reproduced before the fix; classifier and remote-reply suites, targeted lint, syntax, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp remote escalations at call sites, drop new flag

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped escalation and close lines in test assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Restore reserved-key answered-note guard for stamped closes

* test(status): accept optional emission time in PR-provenance assertions

The #4148 provenance test landed on main with exact unstamped greps.
Parent-channel lines from this branch carry [at=<epoch>], so strip only
that tag before the same exact match. No production change.

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped ready signal in PR fallback scrape

* no-mistakes(review): Drop relay flag, stamp parent events at call sites

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp worker terminal-signal instructions, revert fm-on fixture

* no-mistakes(review): Accept optional stamp in live cmux drift guard

* no-mistakes(review): Restore original test invocation order in two suites

* no-mistakes(review): Strip only well-formed numeric status time tags

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped PR-ready line spelling from channel doc

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp agy spawn-failure status lines with event time

* fix(bin): normalize status event times in-shell and freeze the budget test clock

Two paths made a status event's emission time cost more than it should.

The captain-relevance fallback piped every line through awk to drop a
well-formed `[at=<epoch>]` tag before matching, so a supervisor sweep paid a
fork per line just to prepare a regex match. Shell parameter expansion does the
same strip with no fork, and the retry-dedup scan now reuses that one helper
instead of carrying a second copy of the rule in awk. The copies had already
drifted: the shell side stripped tags from lines with no colon, which the awk
rule left whole, so a colonless line could be mistaken for one already
recorded. One definition, checked against the awk rule it replaces over the
edge cases and a 4000-line fuzz.

tests/fm-contributions.test.sh froze its fixture clock only in exhaust mode. In
hang mode the poll set DEADLINE to the real now plus a one-second budget, and
when the second ticked before the first forge call the loop broke without ever
calling gh: forge/calls was never written and the assertion failed reading a
missing file. Freezing the clock in both modes removes the dependence on wall
time; the bounded call is still cut by the real timeout, so the observation the
test asserts still starts.

Emission time stays optional on new status records, and legacy or malformed
lines keep an unknown age.

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp ask-user escalation line and fix Kimi status assertion

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped done-line spelling from watcher docs

* test: fold emission-time snapshot coverage into the fixture case

Drop the incidental ci.yml 18-to-19 count hunk so the PR no longer
touches workflows. Keep every emission-time assertion by folding it
into test_fixture_snapshot_json.

* no-mistakes(review): replace brief date substitution with epoch placeholder; drop emitted_at_epoch

* no-mistakes(review): align untimed normalizer with epoch parser; tolerate placeholder stamp in PR scrape

* no-mistakes(review): strip undelimited at-tags; correct brief stamp header

* no-mistakes(review): normalize stamps at both captain-regex sites; restore mtime freshness

* no-mistakes(review): strip colon-bearing stamps for relevance; fix headers and test oracles

* no-mistakes(review): narrow escalation match to stamp tolerance; pin note verb

* no-mistakes(review): read note and key past colon-bearing stamps

* test(status): keep inactive reconcile assertions stamp-tolerant

These two oracles were made stamp-tolerant while resolving one of the
branch's merges from main. The rebase drops merge commits, so that
adaptation was lost and both assertions went back to matching an exact
substring that a stamped line no longer contains: the tag lands before
the colon, so "failed [key=k]: ..." is now "failed [key=k] [at=N]: ...".
Strip a well-formed tag before matching, as the branch's other oracles do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(review): unstamp fold colon tests; reserve stamp width in cap

* no-mistakes(document): correct stale unstamped status-line spellings in docs

* no-mistakes(document): quote brief-test literals for lint; correct stamp-helper contract comments

* no-mistakes(ci): rename subshell-local epoch in delivery-race stub

The serialization test overrides fm_pending_reply_mark_delivered inside a
(..) subshell. Its `epoch` local collided with the same name in
status_line_at_epoch/status_stamp_line, which this branch added and this
suite now calls at top level, so ShellCheck 0.11.0 reported SC2030 and
failed Lint 2. The stub already prefixes its other locals with `pending_`
for the same reason; `epoch` was the leftover.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(bin): unify Lavish host and disconnect handling (#5060)

* fix: ship clean Lavish host fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Lavish classifications and fail-closed host loading

* no-mistakes(review): Restore Lavish host state across retries and launches

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve destination Lavish host when configuration is absent

* no-mistakes(document): Document Lavish status and host guarantees

* feat: act on captain's away words during AFK supervision (#5076)

* feat(afk): make the captain's away words the whole mandate

Retire the clause fields, verb list, never-set scan, refused records, and
the per-task merge-grant list from the away-posture record. The record is
now version 2: the captain's words verbatim plus expected return, spend
cap, and reach line; a version 1 record still validates, reads, and
archives so a live away window is never broken by the upgrade.

The supervision branch reads the words at the tail of every wake and acts
on them by its own judgment through the guarded scripts under standing
authority, never by analogy, holding for the return on doubt, and opens
each such outcome summary with "per your away instructions:" so the
return brief can render the words beside the session's account. While the
record exists any green merge runs under away authority (ledger tag
"away"); red merges, --allow-red, asynchronous and queued merges, and
local-only landing stay refused. The branch may file a backlog item the
words explicitly call for before dispatching it under the spend cap.

Tests drive fm-afk-contract.sh, fm-afk-launch.sh, fm-afk-return.sh, and
fm-pr-merge.sh as commands: version 2 written, version 1 read, retired
flags and subcommands refused by name, green merges landing under the
record, red and waived-red refused, the record lock still closing the
authority-read window, and the Pi away tail carrying the words.

* no-mistakes(review): carry the away read-back to the session verbatim

* no-mistakes(review): match the exact away-action marker in the return brief

* no-mistakes(review): refuse a words block truncated by a damaged line

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-role contract documentation

* fix(bin): render the remote charter's steering-inbox path host-local (#5049)

* fix(bin): render the remote charter's steering-inbox path host-local

A freshly provisioned remote secondmate read a parent-home absolute
steering-inbox path in its charter - a location that exists on no route -
and spent its first turn discovering the gap and filing a blocked
decision for what was a render defect. The seed's remote-copy rewrite now
maps the inbox to the route's host-local parent-route inbox, exactly as
it already maps the reply-log path, so every mention - bare path, listing,
and handled/ acknowledgement - lands host-local.

Both rewrites also become plain assignments, because a quoted substitution
nested inside a double-quoted printf argument leaks literal quotes into
the replacement text on stock macOS bash. The lifecycle suite pins the
corrected render both directions against the real seed, provisioning,
and delivery route, sharing one fixture value between the render truth
and the delivery truth.

Closes #5012

* no-mistakes(document): document remote charter's host-local steering inbox

* feat: route Lavish feedback directly to owning workers (#5099)

* feat(procevent): route worker-owned Lavish rounds

* no-mistakes(review): drop duplicate artifact field from task-owned registration

* no-mistakes(review): post worker reply once, fix ring label, keep re-arm atomic

* no-mistakes(review): keep worker board owned until terminal round acknowledged

* no-mistakes(review): refuse every retirement of an open worker-owned round

* no-mistakes(review): use real lavish reply flag, isolate reply generations

* no-mistakes(review): drop .posted marker for best-effort reply posting

* no-mistakes(review): consume staged reply after listener setup, refuse orphaned captures

* no-mistakes(review): require a reachable owner, redeliver open rounds, roll back failed re-arms

* no-mistakes(review): re-arm only to acknowledge an open round

* no-mistakes(review): conclude only a still-open terminal round

* no-mistakes(review): record the acknowledgement before retiring the board

* no-mistakes(review): retain the registration across a conclude, qualify terminal docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document worker-owned Lavish round lifecycle

* fix(bin): fit pull observation within the contribution poll budget (#5107)

* fix(bin): reserve contribution observation budget

* no-mistakes(review): Strengthen slow-read regression test to exceed the poll budget

* feat(bin): add idempotent inbox capture, replies, receipts, and readiness JSON (#5103)

* feat(bin): add idempotent inbox orders, receipts, replies, and readiness

Let a caller supply a request id when publishing a captain inbox note so a
retry returns the original note instead of creating a second one, including
across the crash window between save and wake announcement. Separate saved
from announced so a failed wake is repairable without enqueueing again.
Add bounded receipts JSON with omission disclosure, a durable primary reply
against a note id, and a read-only readiness projection that can say
unknown instead of inferring liveness from a lock file.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(bin): honest inbox announce, reply cursor, and readiness verdict

* fix(bin): resolve ready from lock-holder ancestry; drop lock status --json

Remove the extra JSON surface from fm-lock.sh so its human status still
always exits zero. Have the readiness projection classify the inspected
home from the lock-holder pid via fm-harness.sh ancestry, with an explicit
FM_SUPERVISION_MODEL still winning and an unknown model when there is no
holder. Prove the yes path when that ancestry names a known harness.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden inbox announce, receipts reads, and reply sequence cursor

* no-mistakes(document): Note read-only lock inspection in scripts inventory

* no-mistakes(lint): Pass missing id argument to malformed-reply test printf

---------

Co-authored-by: cliflacata-svg <304148223+cliflacata-svg@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): stop harness footer rows below a composer from reading as pending text (#5118)

* fix(composer): stop a harness footer row from reading as a composer holding text

A harness draws its own furniture below the composer - a user statusLine, a
permission-mode hint - and the cursorless "bottom-most shape wins" rule looks
exactly there. `→` (U+2192) is Cursor's prompt glyph but ordinary text
everywhere else, so a statusLine opening with `→` was selected as a bare
composer, swallowed the hint row beneath it as wrapped input, and answered
`pending` on a visibly empty pane. `fm_task_inbox_ring` defers on exactly that
verdict, and `bin/fm-watch.sh`'s re-ring calls the same function, so the first
doorbell and every retry were skipped and the worker never saw the steer.

Measured live on 2026-09-20: three of five Claude Code 2.1.236 worker panes on
Herdr 0.8.0 had genuinely empty composers and every one of them was refused.

A separator pair that closed over a bare agent-glyph row is a proven composer
container, so the contiguous non-blank rows below its closing rule are that
composer's footer and are no longer composer candidates. The demotion is bounded
by all three of its own preconditions: a blank row ends the zone, a pair that
closed over no glyph row demotes nothing, and a shape with no separator pair at
all (Cursor's half-block rules) is untouched. Real unsubmitted text in that same
composer, including a stray SGR mouse report left by a click in the pane, still
reads `pending`.

Pinned by two portable regressions and by a new cursorless arm on the live
composer-matrix guard, which re-reads each harness's already-proven-idle pane
the way every non-tmux backend reads it and fails naming the harness and
version when that read is `pending`.

* no-mistakes(review): make composer footer-zone demotion shape-independent

* no-mistakes(review): make footer-zone demotion refuse-only and drop rescan

* no-mistakes(lint): quote probe-absent sentinel to clear ShellCheck SC2100

---------

Co-authored-by: Koen Muller <koen@catapult.nl>

* feat(bin): append optional home-local include to briefs (#5115)

Co-authored-by: guanchengh-lgtm <271917158+guanchengh-lgtm@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): report a branch with no validation run as absent instead of an unreadable runs table (#5114)

* fix(bin): stop misreading a no-run branch as an unreadable runs table

Defect: when `no-mistakes axi status`'s overview is truncated (a task's
own branch has zero rows among the shown ones), fm_nm_select_run's
Python fallback derived the repo identity for its direct SQLite query
from a `repo: <path>` line it expected in the overview text. The real
CLI never emits that line, truncated or not (see the genuine capture at
tests/captures/no-mistakes-v1.70.1/overview.toon, which has only
`count:`/`runs[...]:`), so the lookup always failed and reported
"unreadable runs table" for a task that simply has no run on its
branch. On a fleet with many concurrent runs, every idle-branch task
hits the truncated-overview path routinely, so this fired every few
minutes and drowned genuine unreadable/blocked verdicts in noise.

Fix: derive the repo identity from the task worktree path instead,
which is exactly the value `no-mistakes` records as a repo's
`working_path` (confirmed against the existing capped-overview test
fixtures, which already register repos by worktree path). A worktree
path that is not absolute cannot be matched and still reads as
unreadable rather than being guessed at. Also raise the reader's
SQLite busy timeout from 1s to 30s so ordinary lock contention on a
busy fleet cannot masquerade as an unreadable database.

Safety: every other verdict byte-for-byte unchanged - the repo lookup
still requires exactly one matching row (a genuinely corrupt or
mismatched repos table still reports unreadable, per the existing
`repo` failure-mode test), the branch query and row validation are
untouched, and a zero-row result for the branch still flows through
the same recursive re-parse that already turns an empty `runs[0]{...}`
table into `absent`. Added a regression test
(test_capped_overview_without_repo_line_and_no_runs_reports_absent)
that reproduces the real overview shape - capped, zero rows for the
task's branch, no `repo: ` line - and asserts the crew state falls
through to the pane/busy verdict instead of reporting unknown or
"unreadable". Full fm-crew-state.test.sh suite passes unchanged
otherwise.

* fix: recovered same-branch inventory awk misreads empty result as unreadable

fm_nm_select_run's deep SQLite reader rebuilds a `count:`/`runs[...]:`
overview and re-runs it through the same awk selection pass. When that
rebuilt inventory has zero rows for the branch, the row-matching loop never
executes, so its counters (`seen`) stay at awk's uninitialized empty string
while `expected` and `shown` are plain strings parsed from the header text.
Comparing an uninitialized value against a non-numeric string uses string
comparison, so "" != "0" is true, and the END block takes the "unreadable
runs table" branch instead of falling through to the correct "absent"
verdict for a branch with genuinely zero runs.

Coerce the affected END comparisons with `+0` so they are always numeric,
matching seen/expected/shown/total regardless of whether awk classified
them as strings or numeric strings. A truncated or genuinely malformed
inventory still differs numerically and still reports unreadable.

* no-mistakes(review): bound capped-overview inventory reader and canonicalize worktree lookup

* no-mistakes(review): match recorded repo path first, tolerate duplicate spellings

* no-mistakes(review): revert repo lookup to exact working_path match

* no-mistakes(document): note state-db inventory read under crew-state nm timeout

* fix(bin): require a non-draft pull request before a PR-based done report (#5141)

* fix(bin): require a non-draft pull request before a PR-based done report

A PR-based ship could report done, and merge monitoring could be armed, while the pull request was still a draft. A draft cannot be merged, so the poll waited for an event that could not occur and nobody was asked to merge.

The PR-based definitions of done now require reading the pull request back from the forge and confirming it is not a draft, and a lane that deliberately holds a draft declares a wait instead of done.
bin/fm-pr-check.sh refuses to arm merge monitoring on a draft, naming the draft state, and treats an unreadable draft state as before.
The draft reading now lives in bin/fm-pr-lib.sh and bin/fm-pr-merge.sh uses it, with its refusal to merge a draft unchanged.

Closes #4757

* fix(review): Skip arm-time draft refusal when fm-pr-merge records metadata

* fix: support quota-axi schema 6 snapshots (#4904)

* fix(bin): accept quota-axi schema 6 snapshots keyed by provider + accountKey

quota-axi 0.1.47 emits schemaVersion 6 once a provider expands to more
than one account: every provider row carries an accountKey and one
provider id may appear on several rows. fm_quota_json_valid accepted
only schema 5 with unique provider ids, so fm-dispatch-resolve.sh,
fm-quota-choose.sh, and fm-procevent-quota.sh all rejected the live
snapshot and quota-informed dispatch was dead against the current tool.

- bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: the validator accepts schema 6 with
  accountKey required on every row and uniqueness on
  provider + accountKey; schema 5 keeps its exact rules. FM_QUOTA_ROW_JQ
  is the one join every consumer uses: schema 5 binds by provider alone,
  schema 6 binds to the row keyed by the candidate's Pi lane, else the
  provider's default row, else no row (unmeasured, never blocked, never
  by position or summed across accounts).
- bin/fm-quota-choose.sh: accepts schema 6 JSON and the TOON accountKey
  column, and joins through the shared function.
- bin/fm-dispatch-resolve.sh and bin/fm-procevent-quota.sh: join through
  the shared function; an expanded provider with no row for the
  candidate's account is reported as such.
- tests: schema 6 fixtures shaped like the real snapshot, each paired
  with a schema 5 case on the same path; every new case fails on the
  previous scripts and passes now.
- docs: the two sentences naming the row join describe the schema 6 key.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix native Codex quota and expanded provider watches

* no-mistakes(review): Align native Codex account matching across dispatch paths

* no-mistakes(document): Align quota documentation with account-aware snapshots

* no-mistakes(document): Align quota dispatch documentation with account matching

* fix(bin): keep CI lint and the quota watch test portable

- bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: FM_QUOTA_ROW_JQ is read only by the scripts
  that source this library, so full-mode ShellCheck reported SC2034 on
  the assignment; mark it alongside the existing SC2016 disable.
- tests/fm-procevent-quota.test.sh: the schema 6 provider-watch
  assertions used rg, which CI runners do not install, so the case
  failed with 'rg: command not found' rather than on behavior; use grep
  like the rest of the file.

* no-mistakes(document): Documented schema-version account-row compatibility

* test: fix Claude session-start drain live E2E (#5165)

* test: repair Claude live auto-arm regression

* no-mistakes(review): Assert SessionStart digest completeness within its hook_response event

* no-mistakes(document): Consolidate Claude live verification references

* ci: pin the no-mistakes required check to v1.80.1 (#5195)

Roll the shared require-no-mistakes action to the tagged v1.80.1 SHA and grant pull-requests: read so the check can read PR bodies.

* fix(bin): retain Pi watcher predecessor to stop false down alarms (#5174)

* fix: preserve Pi watcher ownership across session replacement

* no-mistakes(document): Scope Pi predecessor retention away from omp

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed all three failing checks; only one was code-caused. (ci-3, genuine) Stock macOS Bash snapshot compatibility: `tests/fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh` failed the macOS Bash 3.2 `bash -n` parse sweep with `line 4265: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '`. I built GNU Bash 3.2.0 from source locally and reproduced it. Root cause: the PR added a comment containing an apostrophe (`// Replacement shutdown deliberately retains module 2's established arm until`) inside a quoted here-document (`<<'EOF'`) nested inside a `$(...)` command substitution. Bash 3.2 has a parser bug (fixed in later bash) where an unmatched single quote inside such a here-doc body is treated as opening a shell quote and never closed, aborting the whole file parse. The base commit parses cleanly under Bash 3.2, confirming this PR introduced the break. Minimal fix: reworded the comment to remove the apostrophe (`... retains the established module-2 arm until`), preserving meaning. Verified `bin/fm-lint.sh --list-files` (the 6 changed shell files) now all pass `/tmp/bash-3.2/bash -n`; Bash 5 also parses. (ci-1, infrastructure) Behavior portable serial 8: GitHub API shows the `Run portable serial shard 8` step conclusion=success; only `Upload portable serial shard 8 timing artifact` failed with `Failed to FinalizeArtifact ... (403) Forbidden`. This is a transient artifact-service/cancellation failure, not a test or code failure. No change. (ci-2, infrastructure) Lint 1: fetched the job log via the GitHub API; it ends with `##[error]The runner has received a shutdown signal...` then exit 143. The step was cancelled mid-run, not a ShellCheck finding. Independently ran `bin/fm-lint.sh --partition 1of2 --telemetry ...` locally with pinned ShellCheck 0.11.0 and actionlint 1.7.12: exited rc=0 (no findings). No change. The only code change is the apostrophe removal in tests/fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh; no other files modified

* fix(bin): allow cleanup of windowless legacy task records (#5236)

* fix(bin): retire windowless leftovers and stop claiming a Pi daemon teardown

Catch-up correctly refuses while a leftover task record has no status file.
Cleanup used to deadlock on those same records when they also had no spawn_gen and no window, so they lingered and wedged every later away-mode return. Teardown now treats a windowless leftover as a missing-endpoint legacy record, and stop reports that no daemon terminal was running when none was launched.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Narrow windowless teardown exception to tmux legacy leftovers

* no-mistakes(review): Validate windowless leftover identity via shared endpoint validator

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse windowless leftovers carrying other backends' endpoint identity

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify windowless teardown retry documentation

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* ci: exempt kunchenguid from the no-mistakes required check (#5256)

* fix(bin): surface launches parked on an interactive prompt as not-started (#5250)

* fix: surface parked launch prompts as not started

* no-mistakes(document): docs: record launch-prompt busy backstop classification

* no-mistakes(document): docs: align tail40 and rendered-text comments with launch-prompt backstop

* fix: record away posture immediately on /afk (#5260)

* feat(afk): make /afk itself the go with a same-turn record write

Collapse the propose-then-confirm away entry into one 'enter' step that
writes state/.afk-contract immediately and prints the announcement and
read-back after the record exists, never asking for a go. The retired
propose, confirm, and --proposal inputs are refused by name, and a stale
proposal left by an older version is removed rather than promoted.
Refresh and replace semantics, verbatim words, the single writer, the
never-set, and per-harness launch behavior are unchanged.

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-entry documentation evidence

* fix(bin): recognize passed-with-override as a passing outcome (#5294)

* fix(bin): map passed-with-override to done instead of unknown

no-mistakes' axi status emits outcome: passed-with-override for a run
that finished with an explicitly approved Test or CI exception. Both
bin/fm-crew-state.sh's outcome resolver and bin/fm-teardown.sh's
pre-teardown terminal-run check only matched the literal passed and
checks-passed tokens, so this outcome fell through to unknown/parked
and a finished worker awaiting merge kept getting re-alerted as stale,
while an abort race during teardown could also leave a finished run
misreported as still parked.

Map passed-with-override to the same done/terminal handling as a
clean passed in both places.

* fix(document): Replace stale outcome mapping with authoritative pointer

* fix(ci): Fixed a pre-existing mock-clock race in tests/fm-contributions.test.sh by advancing time only during the serial issue read. Reproduced the exact CI failure before fixing it. Forced-race replay, all 38 contribution scenarios, scoped ShellCheck, Bash syntax, and diff checks pass. Only the test fixture changed; CI rerun remains with the outer executor

* fix: clean up workers after their pull requests land (#5317)

* fix: close landed workers from supervision in both postures and at return

During the 2026-09-22 away window every exemption worker whose pull request
had merged was left sitting for nine hours. The supervision branch received
the stale wake, the merge-landed check, and the hourly inactive-outcome row
for each of them, ran the recovery playbook, found nothing to recover, and
reported "no further action". The branch prompt granted ordinary teardown of
a confirmed-landed task without ever naming the moment or the command, and
the playbook has no landed exit, so the stale path ended at "nothing to
recover". The return brief then listed only blockers, decisions, and the
latest five routine outcomes, so the landed workers stayed invisible after
the captain came back.

- bin/fm-branch-prompt.sh: name the merge-landed wake, and any later stale,
  inactive-outcome, or heartbeat row on a done task with a merged PR, as the
  moment to claim the lease and run bin/fm-teardown.sh with no flags; a
  refusal is reported, never forced or worked around. Add teardown to the
  handling tool list.
- stuck-crewmate-recovery: a landed worker is not a recovery case; point at
  the ordinary teardown owner for each actor.
- bin/fm-afk-return.sh: render a "Landed, cleanup due" section from durable
  records only (a live task record whose recorded PR carries the
  merge-notification marker), between could-not-fix and handled, without
  holding the gate; the afk skill's return step closes each listed task
  through ordinary teardown once the check clears.
- tests: pin the prompt rule in fm-branch-supervision and the brief section
  in fm-afk-return through the real marker writer.

* no-mistakes(document): Document landed-task cleanup ownership

* fix: surface green no-mistakes PRs awaiting merge (#5327)

* fix(bin): surface a green no-mistakes PR still in ci merge monitoring

A green PR could sit unreported because neither the worker nor the
supervisor could observe checks-green while the ci step kept monitoring
for the merge.

Supervisor read: fm_nm_select_run's capped-overview inventory reader looked
the repository up by the task worktree path, but no-mistakes registers a
repository once by its main clone path and resolves every linked worktree
to it, so on every task copy of a busy repo the lookup matched no row and
each read reported "complete same-branch run inventory unreadable". Key the
lookup on the overview's own top-level `repo:` line, which every axi
release emits as the resolved working_path.

Even with a readable run, the ci-log classifier treated "base branch
advanced ..., re-arming CI monitor timeout" as not-ready. The monitor logs
a checks state only when it changes and a base advance does not clear
readiness, so a green PR read as still validating for as long as main kept
advancing. Stop treating that line as a marker, matching no-mistakes' own
ci-log parser, and name the run's PR URL in the held-for-merge reading so
the existing inactive-outcome path can act on it without a worker report.

Worker contract: `axi status` never reports checks-passed while the ci
step monitors for merge, so the definition of done no longer makes a
status poll the wait for the next gate or outcome; the drive call's own
return is the green signal, reattached with `no-mistakes axi run` after a
bounded return.

* no-mistakes(review): read the full ci log when checking checks-green

* no-mistakes(review): correct stale ci log tail wording in docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document checks-green supervisor fallback

* fix: derive Lavish polling route from board session (#5334)

* fix: derive Lavish polling server from its board session

* no-mistakes(document): Document session-derived Lavish polling

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Lavish routing verification claims

* fix(bin): stop secondmate relaunch failing when watcher scratch files vanish (#4900)

* fix(bin): ignore vanished state scratch files on secondmate relaunch

Relaunch refused when find(1) exited non-zero while listing a secondmate
home's state directory. A live watcher can delete scratch files between
readdir and processing, which is not evidence that child *.meta records
are unreadable.

Prove the directory is listable from its mode and keep the existing
readable-meta loop as the child-record guarantee. Fixes #4765.

* no-mistakes(review): Skip chmod-000 unlistable-state relaunch test when running as root

* fix(bin): stop each keyed answer from re-waking this home (#4907)

* fix(bin): treat home-owned status closes as already read

Self-announced bookkeeping appends now record their exact byte ranges.
Later drains and signal scans skip those ranges, so two distinct
--resolve-key answers after an OPEN DECISIONS fold do not each wake the
supervisor. Worker-authored lines outside that ledger still signal.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep owned closes in unread status; lock ledger writes

* no-mistakes(review): Drop fold-lag wake suppression so folded worker decisions still wake

* no-mistakes(review): Require real owned growth before ledger marks status seen

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify home-appends ledger scope versus UNREAD STATUS

* no-mistakes(review): Restore fold-lag path, drop owned-range filters, fix test

* no-mistakes(review): Align ledger docs and scope ledger to wake path only

* no-mistakes(review): Restore stranded historical-annotation test comment to its function

* no-mistakes(review): Retire the home-appends lock alongside its ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Note ledger's lock-helper dependency in classify library

* no-mistakes(review): Append-and-coalesce home-appends ledger; fix stamped-line assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Drop redundant empty-span branch; make owned test pin ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Document covers' ascending-order dependency on home-appends ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Note owned-append skip in watcher signal-scan comment

* fix: deliver failed public follow-ups with updated AXI floors (#5350)

* chore(bin): raise tasks-axi, quota-axi, and lavish-axi floors to latest

Raise the minimum versions to tasks-axi 0.2.6, quota-axi 0.1.50, and
lavish-axi 0.1.77, pin CI's tasks-axi install to 0.2.6, and move the
floor-boundary test fixtures to the new versions.

tasks-axi 0.2.6 makes a failed relation deliverable for a promised-final
expecting pr-merged, so add the regression test: a bound work that ends
failed reports its honest outcome text through fm-public-followup-emit.sh,
consume marks the commitment ready, and deliver posts that text exactly
once.

Also make two hang-guard tests in fm-backlog-atomicity portable to hosts
without coreutils timeout, and stop an installed herdr from leaking into
the secondmate-liveness husk classifier test.

* no-mistakes(review): drop out-of-scope bounded_run hang-guard helper from atomicity test

* no-mistakes(review): pin quota-axi floor at 0.1.49 across fixtures

* no-mistakes(document): Document failed public-followup delivery behavior

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated quota-axi floor and all 0.1.49 fixtures to 0.1.51, corrected bootstrap boundaries to 0.1.51/0.1.52/0.1.50, and bumped the bearings lavish-axi stub to 0.1.77. Bearings, quota procevent, quota chooser, startup budget, and bootstrap floor coverage passed; the full bootstrap suite exceeded the 240-second local command limit after relevant checks passed. git diff --check passed

* fix(bin): refuse ship done: when the named head exists only in the worker copy (#4878)

* fix(bin): refuse ship done: when the named head lives only in the worker copy

A ship done: is not current-state done until that exact commit is reachable
outside the disposable copy. The check tests the named head, not whether
some branch moved.

* fix(bin): gate CI-ready ship done: on named-head reachability, not handoff

Keep no-mistakes' first done: as the pipeline handoff, apply the same shared
check when registering a PR and when a secondmate publishes ledger-first,
treat a recorded merged PR as landed after prune, and name the PR head
instead of scanning free-text SHAs.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind named-head gate to recorded PR and forge heads

* no-mistakes(review): Gate direct-PR forge heads and keep pending ledger deliveries

* no-mistakes(review): Align worker done wording, test mapping, pending-retry test

* no-mistakes(test): Raise watcher test time limit to stop load flake

* no-mistakes(document): Restore ledger-path fact and name named-head gate coverage

* ci: re-attest named-head ship-done gate for a fresh serial-3 verdict

* no-mistakes(review): Simplify local-only gate, gate keyed done lines, document recovery

* no-mistakes(document): Name fm-crew-state among named-head gate callers

* fix(bin): ring a proven-idle secondmate before raising a wake-loop stall alarm (#5204)

* fix(bin): ring a proven-idle secondmate before a wake-loop stall alarm

A leftover foreign-queue row on an idle, alive, ring-safe mate is still drainable in that home. Ring once, reset the observation interval, and keep the parent alarm for unknown, busy, or still-frozen rows.

* no-mistakes(review): Mark drain steer with from-firstmate fire-and-forget carrier

* test(watch-arm): size re-arm waits off the real loaded recovery cost (#5335)

The re-arm recovery cases judged "the watcher stayed live instead of
surfacing recovery" with fixed budgets below what a real stale-lock
recovery costs on a contended host: the arm's default 10s confirmation
deadline, a start helper that returned after about 4s whether or not the
arm had confirmed its watcher, and an 80-poll exit wait.
A changed-suite run beside other suites starves the recovery's many
short-lived processes while this suite's sleeping poll loops keep their
pace, so a watcher still surfacing its recovery read as one that stayed
live (issue #3793).
The original 0.25s window after confirmation was widened to 80 polls in
#3837, which left the same race at a larger size.

Following the CONTRIBUTING.md fixture-budget rule, the re-arm helper now
gives the arm an explicit 30s confirmation budget and waits for its
confirmation or exit within a ceiling that outlasts it, and every wait on
a re-armed watcher uses one named iteration-counted ceiling that outlasts
the same budget.
A passing case returns as soon as the arm reports or exits, and a watcher
that never surfaces its recovery still fails.

A new case delays every mktemp and readlink the re-armed watcher runs
after it publishes its beacon, so its first poll and exit take about 13s
on any host.
It fails with the reported symptom on the previous budgets and passes now.
No bin/ change.

* fix: stop watchers reliably during blocked polls (#5362)

* fix(bin): let one TERM always stop the watcher on bash 5.2

Bash 5.2 runs a pending trap from the parser entry of the next command
substitution it expands, where the trap body is parsed as the inside of
that substitution and fails ("trap: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking
for matching `)'") or is dropped silently, consuming the signal. The
watcher's `trap 'exit 1' HUP INT TERM` could therefore ignore a TERM and
keep polling while its stopper waited: the triage suite's reap waited
forever (CI jobs cancelled at 30 minutes), and the arm's signal path and
the away-mode daemon's shutdown wait for the watcher the same way.
Bash 5.3 fixed the parser; 5.2 is the stock bash on Ubuntu 24.04.

HUP and TERM now keep bash's native fatal-signal handling, which runs the
EXIT trap (watcher_cleanup) and exits on bash 3.2, 5.2, and 5.3. INT keeps
its trap because bash ignores a direct SIGINT while a child runs. The
check-spawn deferral window no longer contains a command substitution.

The triage suite's reap is now bounded and fails the case within 10s with
process evidence instead of hanging the job, and a new regression test
proves TERM stops a watcher blocked inside a poll's pane capture and still
releases its lock and records an acknowledgeable stop.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify watcher stop-signal documentation

* fix: submit stuck inbox doorbells instead of skipping them (#5374)

* fix(bin): submit our own stuck doorbell instead of skipping every later ring

* no-mistakes(review): Confirm and retry Enter once on stuck-doorbell submit

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify doorbell retry and pending-composer documentation

* feat: add opt-in fleet activity ledger (#5375)

* feat(bin): add the opt-in fleet activity ledger

Homes that create config/fleet-ledger get an append-only JSONL file,
state/fleet-ledger.jsonl, recording task.dispatched, task.status,
task.merged, and task.cleaned_up so outside tools can follow a fleet.
With the flag absent each producer does one file test and nothing else.
docs/fleet-ledger.md owns the record contract and its documented limits.

* no-mistakes(review): Record task.status text verbatim after the first colon

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify fleet ledger status and setup documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed a timing race in tests/fm-pi-branch-extension.test.sh: the replacement-wake test now waits for the prompt to start before releasing it. The focused test passed twice, and git diff --check passed

* fix: validate public follow-up deliverables and wake on rejection (#5352)

* fix(bin): format, validate, and surface public-followup deliverables

brief pre-fills report_path=data/<work-id>/report.md and states the accepted
format of every value it cannot know instead of a bare <value> placeholder.
fm-public-followup-emit.sh refuses a deliverable tasks-axi would refuse, in
both the direct and staged destinations, naming the key, value, and format.
consume records the specific deliverable, outcome, or missing key behind a
tasks-axi refusal, and each refusal wakes the owning home once through the
existing relay poll.

* no-mistakes(review): refuse emits missing a required deliverable in both destinations

* no-mistakes(review): require promised deliverables and keep rejections recoverable

* no-mistakes(review): mirror tasks-axi's canonical pull request URL rule

* no-mistakes(review): keep a rejection wake whose line cannot be read

* no-mistakes(review): key emit-time rules on the promise, not the outcome

* no-mistakes(review): bound deliverable keys and values as tasks-axi does

* no-mistakes(review): state rejection wakes as at-least-once and pin it

* no-mistakes(review): enforce the promised contract tasks-axi holds at emit

* no-mistakes(review): stop inferring a staged promise from its outcome

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh public follow-up documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both CI flakes. Watcher cleanup is now installed before singleton acquisition, preventing timeout races from leaving stale locks while preserving recovery-failure evidence. Bearings render fixtures now publish a valid isolated Lavish session store and retire each listener after rendering, eliminating false unowned-source races. Verified with checkpoint stress, fm-watch-checkpoint, fm-watcher-lock, repeated fm-bearings-board-render runs, project lint, syntax checks, and git diff checks

* Revert unrelated CI auto-fix edits to the watcher and bearings board test

The CI step's automatic repair changed bin/fm-watch.sh and
tests/fm-bearings-board-render.test.sh to chase two intermittent CI
failures that also occur on main and are not part of this change. Restore
both files so this branch carries only the public-followup deliverable fix.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse a repeated --deliverable key at emit argument parsing

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify public-followup validation and rejection-wake documentation

* feat: add Devin CLI crewmate and scout adapter (#5380)

* Add verified Devin CLI worker adapter

* no-mistakes(review): Drop Devin resolver refusal and launch marker

* no-mistakes(review): Verify devin in bootstrap, fold kind rule, update docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document Devin sidecar, resume, and worker-only facts

* no-mistakes(document): Document Devin interrupt, liveness anchor, composer signals

* fix(control): never pair Devin interrupt presses on an idle agent

A fast double Escape on an idle Devin opens its /revert picker, where Enter
reverts file changes. fm-control now sends the second press only after the
first renders Devin's 'esc again to interrupt' armed hint, never sooner than
0.5 s, closes a revert picker a mistimed press opened with one Escape, and
refuses to type the exit command while that picker is open. An unarmed
interrupt reports cancel=not-running and leaves the busy record untouched.

* fix(devin): disable Claude hook import and commit attribution for workers

The per-task Devin config now forces read_config_from.claude=false, so a
worker no longer runs the user's or project's Claude Code hooks (including
Herdr's Claude agent-state hook), and attribution=false, so Devin adds no
Co-Authored-By trailer or Generated-with line to commits and PRs.

* test(devin): extend live guard and record Herdr and revert-picker evidence

The credentialed live guard now fails if an imported Claude Code hook runs,
if the worker's commit carries Devin attribution, if an idle interrupt sends
more than one press or opens the revert picker, or if an open picker lets
exit through or is closed with a revert. The Devin reference, agent-control
doc, and verification records carry the 2026-09-22 tmux and Herdr lab results,
including the Herdr exit refusal.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Devin documentation links and lifecycle guidance

---------

Co-authored-by: Denis Beliaev <battler73@yandex.ru>

* fix(bin): recognize passed-with-skips as a passing outcome (#5322)

fm-crew-state classifies the no-mistakes outcome 'passed-with-skips' as
unknown, so a finished worker awaiting merge is re-alerted as stale. The
same blind spot lets fm-teardown's pre-teardown terminal-run check refuse
a legitimate abort race that lands on this outcome.

Map passed-with-skips to done in crew-state resolution, keeping the
skipped publication/CI verification visible in the detail rather than
reporting a clean pass, and recognize it as terminal during teardown.

* fix(bin): refuse unavailable backend adapters before sourcing (#5382)

* fix: refuse missing backend adapter before source

* no-mistakes(review): Gate backend precheck under stock Bash

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify adapter precheck docs

* no-mistakes(lint): Suppress intentional child Bash ShellCheck warning

* test: repair base-red liveness, export-DOM, and wake-queue self-tests (#5338)

* fix(test): repair tmux liveness and calm follow-up loaded_off regressions

Both self-tests fail on untouched main on a host whose coreutils are a
multicall binary and whose Chrome has no pre-warmed profile, and each failure
masks the other's file.

tests/fm-tmux-agent-liveness.test.sh - the stand-in harness processes were
symlinks to the host's `sleep`. A single-purpose `sleep` runs happily under
another name, but a multicall coreutils binary (uutils or busybox) resolves its
applet from argv[0]: `claude-link -> sleep` invoked under the harness name runs
the wrong applet and exits immediately, so no foreground process exists and
every positive case reads not-alive ("last verdict for liveness:agent was
missing (expected alive); title=sh comms=[sh ]"). Build a dedicated spinner as
the stand-in target, exactly the way the version-string case already builds its
executable, and require the fallback target to demonstrably survive the rename
before using it. Every assertion is untouched; the stand-in identity signal is
unchanged (the kernel still records the symlink name as the executable
identity).

tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh - render_export_dom pinned a brand-new
`--user-data-dir` per attempt. On Google Chrome for Testing 151.0.7922.34 that
pristine profile makes Chrome's first-run initialization never complete: the
browser and its renderers start, but --dump-dom never returns, so all three
bounded attempts end exit=0 timed_out=yes bytes=0 and the DOM assertions never
run ("could not render calm-mode HTML export DOM"). Chrome's own profile
creation under a fresh HOME renders the same document in about a second, so the
helper now gives Chrome a private per-attempt HOME instead of the explicit
profile flag. Each attempt still gets an isolated profile, and every DOM
assertion is unchanged.

Root-cause evidence: a pristine --user-data-dir with `--headless=new
--dump-dom` had not returned after 150s, while the same command with an empty
HOME and no --user-data-dir returned the full DOM in ~1s, and reusing an
already-populated profile also returned it in ~1s. The render failure masked
the rest of the file: with it repaired, the Pi follow-up loaded_off case passes
unmodified against an installed @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent package.

These two failures block downstream validation of every lane on hosts with
multicall coreutils or a fresh Chrome profile.

Verification:
- timeout 300 bash tests/fm-tmux-agent-liveness.test.sh -> exit 0, 16 assertions ok
- timeout 700 bash tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh -> exit 0, 13 assertions ok,
  including the Pi operational follow-up loaded_off case
- bash -n and shellcheck clean on both touched files
- rest of tests/: bin/fm-test-run.sh --all bounded by timeout 900 completed 17 files with 0 failures (fm-afk-contract.test.sh through fm-backend-herdr-launcher-workspace-e2e.test.sh), then the bound cut off the 18th (fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh, a real-herdr-gated lab test) with no failure recorded

* fix(test): give wake-queue observation checkpoints the alerting ceiling

tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh's secondmate stall case runs bounded foreground
watcher checkpoints whose job is to record an observation, with the alerting
checkpoint that follows asserting the stall. A checkpoint's exit publishes a
downtime marker, and the next checkpoint consumes it only by reaching the end of
the watcher's poll loop, where the recovery surfacing runs after the stall tick;
the observation itself is recorded by that same stall tick. On a loaded host a
1s ceiling sits under the cost of that iteration (which includes a pane capture
in the active-turn gate), so the observation was never recorded, the downtime
marker stayed pending, and the alerting checkpoint surfaced
`check: rearm-resurface` instead of the stall it asserts:

  not ok - a foreign queue with no progress did not alert: check: rearm-resurface
  not ok - a frozen reprovisioned queue generation was hidden: check: rearm-resurface

Give the observation checkpoints that feed a later alert the same 4s ceiling the
file already documents for alerting checkpoints. The ceiling is only a bound - a
checkpoint still returns on its first actionable wake - so no assertion is
weakened, and the quiet windows get longer, not shorter.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: correct export-DOM Chrome render root cause

* no-mistakes(review): Isolate Chrome profile on macOS, dedupe tmux CC_BIN lookup

* chore: re-trigger fork workflow approval for triage

---------

Co-authored-by: Captain <blackxwhite88@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: kunchenguid <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: keep watcher status classification bounded to new log spans (#5383)

* fix(bin): classify a status span without re-folding the whole log

A watcher poll could take minutes, so its liveness beacon aged past the
guard's 300s grace and the Stop auto-arm reported the watcher down. On the
main home, cycles ended with beacon_age 91-235s while healthy and 534-706s
while the laptop was CPU-starved.

Cause: whenever a newly appended status span held a keyed needs-decision
or blocked line, status_span_first_actionable_record re-read and re-folded
the ENTIRE log to decide whether that opening was still live, forking
several subshells per line. On a remote second mate's mirrored parent
channel (1.2MB, ~2300 lines) that is 13-20k subshells, about 17s per log
per classification when idle, paid by every signal and heartbeat scan.

Nothing regressed recently: subshell counts per classification were
20,272 from #3268 (2026-08-29, which introduced the whole-log fold) and
13,188 from #3753 onward through HEAD. The cost grew with log size, since
parent-channel logs only grow.

Fix: fold only the captured span. An accepted opening does not depend on
earlier lines and only later lines close or supersede it, and every later
line lies inside the span, so the span fold names the same live openings
at a cost bounded by the span. Old and new classification outputs are
byte-identical across 51 span offsets of real-shaped secondmate and ship
logs.

A real-watcher regression test records every read the classification
makes through the span-reader seam and asserts none reaches before the
classified offset; it fails on the old code (5,157 bytes read from
offset 0 to classify an 84-byte span).

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify span classification and watcher regression coverage

* test: close pr-check watcher test gaps (original flake already fixed by #5362 and #4878) (#5381)

* test: fix watcher timing flakes in fm-pr-check-security

The bounded watcher's hang guard now counts only the watcher's own time: a
case marks the intervals where it holds the watcher on injected work or makes
it wait on concurrent work, and those no longer count against its budget. The
budget itself stays at main's sixty seconds. The helper also stops forcing a
one-second per-check timeout, which killed a correct merged poll whenever that
poll took longer than a second, so the watcher only retried it or exited on a
later check's wake without the merge.

The concurrent-publication case pauses the guard while its arming is in
flight, and its task now sorts before the contributions observer the arming
also registers, so the watcher stops on the poll under test before running
that unrelated fleet snapshot. The case also prints the watcher's stderr when
it fails.

The replacement case pauses the guard while the re-arm runs inside the
watcher, runs that injected arming with the fixture root every other arming
here uses, and waits on the replacement merge's process instead of a
two-second cap. Merged-poll runs retire the contributions observer before the
watcher starts, since no case here exercises it.

The returned-descendant case no longer races a four-second sleep or a TERM
landing at an arbitrary point in the watcher's idle loop: its descendant holds
until killed, and a second check in the same cycle witnesses that it was
drained and stops the watcher.

* no-mistakes(ci): Reproduced the intermittent board-render failure. Its Lavish stub listed an open session but omitted the session-state record required by the listener, so the build could race the listener’s exit. Added matching fixture state; the affected suite passed three consecutive runs, and shell syntax and diff checks passed

* Revert "no-mistakes(ci): Reproduced the intermittent board-render failure. Its Lavish stub listed an open session but omitted the session-state record required by the listener, so the build could race the listener’s exit. Added matching fixture state; the affected suite passed three consecutive runs, and shell syntax and diff checks passed"

This reverts commit 6a59859b2e2a3778f9b46faeea42d6de37468cd6.

* feat: record fleet status immediately and emit PR-ready events (#5385)

* feat: record task.pr_ready in the fleet ledger when a task PR is registered

* feat: record worker status lines in the fleet ledger as they are written

* no-mistakes(review): Keep worker status append failures and pass the resolved config to the ledger

* no-mistakes(review): Resolve relative config override before embedding in worker command

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify fleet ledger status capture timing

* test: synchronize foreign queue stall checks with watcher progress (#5386)

* test: synchronize foreign secondmate stall legs on the watcher's recorded observation

Each leg of test_secondmate_foreign_queue_stall_tracks_progress_and_alerts_once
ran the watcher under a 1s or 4s wall-clock checkpoint, but every later leg
depends on the progress observation the previous leg's watcher recorded. Under
load the watcher was killed before its first stall tick, the observation was
never written, and the next leg treated its own sighting as the first one, so
the stall alert never fired.

Run the watcher directly and end each leg on its observable outcome: the
progress marker recording the expected observation, or the watcher's own first
wake. Also move a comment orphaned above this test back to the drain liveness
test it describes.

* no-mistakes(review): Wait for full stall reset before stopping watcher leg

* test: isolate the bearings render fixture from the shared Lavish store (#5391)

The listener resolves its server from that store before it polls…
)

* fix(bin): harden watcher continuity bound and snapshot temp cleanup

* ci: expect the two new snapshot temp-cleanup tests
* feat(bin): defer the wedge escalation for a lane parked at a supervisor-owed gate (#4974)

* fix(watch): recheck a gate awaiting a human instead of wedge-escalating it

A lane whose validation run is parked at a gate waiting on a human
decision is correctly quiet, but nothing in its status line says so: the
evidence is the pipeline's own gate state rather than anything the worker
wrote. The wedge timer read that silence as a suspected wedge and climbed
the escalation ladder for as long as the wait lasted, and each escalation
cost a supervising turn. The landed declared-wait consult does not reach
it, because a live ordinary crewmate never reports a declared pause, and
raising FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS would delay genuine wedge detection for
every lane by the same amount.

The threshold now reads a second, independent record when the status line
accounts for nothing: whether the crew's current state is a gate whose
answer is owed by a human. That is minted only from the gate's own
findings table, by a row whose `action` column is exactly `ask-user`,
located by position out of the table header the way nm_gate_step_row
already reads its row - never searched for over the run payload, where a
finding's free-text description or a branch name satisfies a search just
as well. A gate awaiting the CREWMATE's own answer keeps the unchanged
escalation schedule, reason and demand-deep-inspection wording, because a
crewmate that goes quiet before answering its own gate is exactly the
wedge the ladder exists to catch.

Each kind of wait now carries the human it is on, the action that clears
it, and whether that human is the captain as data alongside the verdict,
rather than as wording chosen per branch where the recheck is written, so
the deferral cannot word one kind of wait as another and a new kind
cannot ship without deciding all of them. A parked gate has no written
record of when its wait began, so its recheck publishes no wait age at
all rather than one read from the quiet window this deferral resets on
every pass, which would report the same small number for a gate of any
age. Like every other captain-facing recheck here it is absorbed in
silence while the away-posture record exists, arming no throttle, so the
recheck is owed in full the moment the record is archived.

The consult runs only in the at-threshold branch that was about to
escalate, beside the worktree walk already there, and only for lanes
whose status line explained nothing.

Closes #3055

* no-mistakes(review): require an unanswered decision before deferring a parked gate

* no-mistakes(review): reset the away-silenced timer, fail-safe findings parse, US-joined wait records

* test(watch): pass the pane hash wedge_timer_check now takes

Upstream gave wedge_timer_check a sixth <pane-hash> argument for its
dead-record probe. The malformed-wait-record rounds drive the real function
directly, so they pass one, and stub fm_backend_agent_state to a live agent so
the probe that runs after a refused deferral keeps the unchanged ladder rather
than reading a backend the child shell has none of.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind parked-gate wait to its run, owe it firstmate

* no-mistakes(document): correct wait-kind count, crew-state reader scope, gate-key coupling

* feat(watch): make the parked-gate wait deferral opt-in

The wedge timer deferring a lane parked at a validation gate is new
supervision behaviour rather than a restored one, and it decides which
lanes give up the escalation ladder, so it now ships as a default-off
per-home option instead of changing every home on upgrade.

config/wedge-defer-parked-gate arms it. The flag is read before the
decision fold, so an unconfigured home spends no fold or current-state
read, writes no record, and keeps the unchanged escalation schedule,
reasons and demand-deep-inspection wording; a test counts the reader
calls in both directions to pin that.

It is not inherited by secondmate homes: each home supervises its own
crew and owns that trade separately, the same reason
config/turnend-churn-absorb is home-local.

The away-posture absorb returns to leaving the idle timer alone, which
it had restarted only because the costly consult could reach it. A
parked-gate wait is owed to the supervisor rather than the captain, so
it never enters that branch, and the recheck owed on return is again
owed in full the moment the record is archived.

* test(watch): pin that the away-silenced hold leaves the idle timer alone

The absorb no longer restarts the timer, so the recheck owed on return is
owed in full rather than a cadence into the return. Nothing asserted
that, so a restart could be reintroduced silently.

* no-mistakes(review): document away-silence rationale, pin captured gate component

* no-mistakes(test): anchor gate row scan to the braced findings header

* no-mistakes(document): pin same-block gate row invariant in crew-state comment

* fix(bin): reclaim a task whose herdr endpoint was destroyed (#5007)

* fix(control): let the owning seat reclaim a task whose endpoint is gone

A destroyed pane or workspace made `missing` a terminal state. Relaunch
accepted only `dead` and said to stop the agent first; exit refused
`missing` and said to reconcile the task first; there is no reconcile
verb. Each command named the other as its prerequisite, so a task whose
terminal went away could not be reclaimed by anything, and a no-mistakes
approval it was parked on had no seat left to answer it.

`missing` is agent-free a fortiori: there is no endpoint, so there is no
agent in it. Widen the existing guards rather than add a verb.

- fm-spawn --relaunch accepts a positively proven `missing` and creates
  one fresh endpoint in the recorded worktree; the record it already
  republishes rebinds the task to it. A `dead` endpoint is still adopted
  in place.
- fm-control exit reports `endpoint-gone` instead of dying, so the
  relaunch transaction's stop step no longer dead-ends, and re-resolves
  the endpoint from the record before verifying the replacement.

The duplicate-agent refusal is untouched: both verdicts come from the
same recovery-grade classifier, which claims `missing` only from positive
absence, so `alive`, `ambiguous`, and `unreadable` all still refuse. The
backends' own create paths refuse a live same-labeled endpoint as a
second independent guard. The worktree, its branch, commits, uncommitted
changes, armed poll and registration, record rows, and status log are all
untouched - a reclaim is a recovery, never a teardown.

A secondmate is excluded: its gone-endpoint recovery already has one
owner in the session-start liveness sweep, so relaunch refuses and names
it rather than becoming a second path to the same outcome.

Tests reproduce both halves of the deadlock, the reclaim succeeding,
unlanded work surviving it, and the refusals that still hold.

* no-mistakes(review): prove endpoint absence per backend before reclaim rebinds

* no-mistakes(review): give exit and relaunch one absence proof; pin herdr rebind session

* no-mistakes(review): narrow endpoint reclaim to herdr; tmux refuses honestly

* no-mistakes(review): stop refusals and docs asserting unestablished causes

* no-mistakes(review): stop herdr fixture helper losing tmp-root registration

* no-mistakes(review): document workspace drift and absence-probe server residue

* no-mistakes(review): correct rebind limitation to its one reachable case

* no-mistakes(review): stop claiming reclaim leaves instructions untouched

* no-mistakes(document): scope fm-control-lib purity claim, note reclaim coverage

* no-mistakes(rebase): read the staged launch file in the herdr fixture

Rebasing onto main picked up #4994, which stages a long worker launch
command into a script and delivers the short `. '<path>'` line instead of
the literal command. The tmux fake and tests/fixtures.sh were updated for
that; the herdr fake this branch adds was written before it and still
keyed "an agent now exists on this pane" off the literal
`encode launch-brief` text, so after the rebase it never marked the
rebound pane live and the reclaim's alive-wait read `dead`.

Dereference the staged file first, exactly as the tmux fake above does.
Test-fixture only; no production path changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(document): note reclaim placement in herdr and scripts inventories

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(bin): stamp status events with their emission time (#3764)

* test(status): reproduce missing event emission time

* wip(status): preserve optional event emission time

* test(status): document indirect clock stub invocation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve historical status bytes during reply recovery

* no-mistakes(test): Fix timestamped status assertions and remote fixture dependencies

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve captain regex overrides for timestamped status events

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify status event timing and publication contracts

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote literal done to satisfy ShellCheck

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, updated .github/workflows/ci.yml to expect 19 snapshot tests instead of 18, matching the PR’s added regression. Reproduced the failure before the fix. Stock Bash 3.2.57 verification passed: parse sweep, 19 snapshot tests, 53 Bearings tests, and the public-followup regression. Workflow lint and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(test): Preserve terminal notifications with malformed timestamp tags

* no-mistakes(test): Stamp Rovo spawn failures with emission time

* no-mistakes(document): Verify status event documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck quoting in status emission-time tests

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed four lifecycle assertions to accept emission timestamps while preserving publication and retry checks. Reproduced the CI failure before the fix. The lifecycle suite now passes with six Beads capability skips; syntax, targeted ShellCheck, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed malformed timestamp colons hiding actionable events using shared normalization. Original bytes and unknown ages are preserved. Regression reproduced before the fix; classifier and remote-reply suites, targeted lint, syntax, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp remote escalations at call sites, drop new flag

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped escalation and close lines in test assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Restore reserved-key answered-note guard for stamped closes

* test(status): accept optional emission time in PR-provenance assertions

The #4148 provenance test landed on main with exact unstamped greps.
Parent-channel lines from this branch carry [at=<epoch>], so strip only
that tag before the same exact match. No production change.

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped ready signal in PR fallback scrape

* no-mistakes(review): Drop relay flag, stamp parent events at call sites

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp worker terminal-signal instructions, revert fm-on fixture

* no-mistakes(review): Accept optional stamp in live cmux drift guard

* no-mistakes(review): Restore original test invocation order in two suites

* no-mistakes(review): Strip only well-formed numeric status time tags

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped PR-ready line spelling from channel doc

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp agy spawn-failure status lines with event time

* fix(bin): normalize status event times in-shell and freeze the budget test clock

Two paths made a status event's emission time cost more than it should.

The captain-relevance fallback piped every line through awk to drop a
well-formed `[at=<epoch>]` tag before matching, so a supervisor sweep paid a
fork per line just to prepare a regex match. Shell parameter expansion does the
same strip with no fork, and the retry-dedup scan now reuses that one helper
instead of carrying a second copy of the rule in awk. The copies had already
drifted: the shell side stripped tags from lines with no colon, which the awk
rule left whole, so a colonless line could be mistaken for one already
recorded. One definition, checked against the awk rule it replaces over the
edge cases and a 4000-line fuzz.

tests/fm-contributions.test.sh froze its fixture clock only in exhaust mode. In
hang mode the poll set DEADLINE to the real now plus a one-second budget, and
when the second ticked before the first forge call the loop broke without ever
calling gh: forge/calls was never written and the assertion failed reading a
missing file. Freezing the clock in both modes removes the dependence on wall
time; the bounded call is still cut by the real timeout, so the observation the
test asserts still starts.

Emission time stays optional on new status records, and legacy or malformed
lines keep an unknown age.

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp ask-user escalation line and fix Kimi status assertion

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped done-line spelling from watcher docs

* test: fold emission-time snapshot coverage into the fixture case

Drop the incidental ci.yml 18-to-19 count hunk so the PR no longer
touches workflows. Keep every emission-time assertion by folding it
into test_fixture_snapshot_json.

* no-mistakes(review): replace brief date substitution with epoch placeholder; drop emitted_at_epoch

* no-mistakes(review): align untimed normalizer with epoch parser; tolerate placeholder stamp in PR scrape

* no-mistakes(review): strip undelimited at-tags; correct brief stamp header

* no-mistakes(review): normalize stamps at both captain-regex sites; restore mtime freshness

* no-mistakes(review): strip colon-bearing stamps for relevance; fix headers and test oracles

* no-mistakes(review): narrow escalation match to stamp tolerance; pin note verb

* no-mistakes(review): read note and key past colon-bearing stamps

* test(status): keep inactive reconcile assertions stamp-tolerant

These two oracles were made stamp-tolerant while resolving one of the
branch's merges from main. The rebase drops merge commits, so that
adaptation was lost and both assertions went back to matching an exact
substring that a stamped line no longer contains: the tag lands before
the colon, so "failed [key=k]: ..." is now "failed [key=k] [at=N]: ...".
Strip a well-formed tag before matching, as the branch's other oracles do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(review): unstamp fold colon tests; reserve stamp width in cap

* no-mistakes(document): correct stale unstamped status-line spellings in docs

* no-mistakes(document): quote brief-test literals for lint; correct stamp-helper contract comments

* no-mistakes(ci): rename subshell-local epoch in delivery-race stub

The serialization test overrides fm_pending_reply_mark_delivered inside a
(..) subshell. Its `epoch` local collided with the same name in
status_line_at_epoch/status_stamp_line, which this branch added and this
suite now calls at top level, so ShellCheck 0.11.0 reported SC2030 and
failed Lint 2. The stub already prefixes its other locals with `pending_`
for the same reason; `epoch` was the leftover.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(bin): unify Lavish host and disconnect handling (#5060)

* fix: ship clean Lavish host fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Lavish classifications and fail-closed host loading

* no-mistakes(review): Restore Lavish host state across retries and launches

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve destination Lavish host when configuration is absent

* no-mistakes(document): Document Lavish status and host guarantees

* feat: act on captain's away words during AFK supervision (#5076)

* feat(afk): make the captain's away words the whole mandate

Retire the clause fields, verb list, never-set scan, refused records, and
the per-task merge-grant list from the away-posture record. The record is
now version 2: the captain's words verbatim plus expected return, spend
cap, and reach line; a version 1 record still validates, reads, and
archives so a live away window is never broken by the upgrade.

The supervision branch reads the words at the tail of every wake and acts
on them by its own judgment through the guarded scripts under standing
authority, never by analogy, holding for the return on doubt, and opens
each such outcome summary with "per your away instructions:" so the
return brief can render the words beside the session's account. While the
record exists any green merge runs under away authority (ledger tag
"away"); red merges, --allow-red, asynchronous and queued merges, and
local-only landing stay refused. The branch may file a backlog item the
words explicitly call for before dispatching it under the spend cap.

Tests drive fm-afk-contract.sh, fm-afk-launch.sh, fm-afk-return.sh, and
fm-pr-merge.sh as commands: version 2 written, version 1 read, retired
flags and subcommands refused by name, green merges landing under the
record, red and waived-red refused, the record lock still closing the
authority-read window, and the Pi away tail carrying the words.

* no-mistakes(review): carry the away read-back to the session verbatim

* no-mistakes(review): match the exact away-action marker in the return brief

* no-mistakes(review): refuse a words block truncated by a damaged line

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-role contract documentation

* fix(bin): render the remote charter's steering-inbox path host-local (#5049)

* fix(bin): render the remote charter's steering-inbox path host-local

A freshly provisioned remote secondmate read a parent-home absolute
steering-inbox path in its charter - a location that exists on no route -
and spent its first turn discovering the gap and filing a blocked
decision for what was a render defect. The seed's remote-copy rewrite now
maps the inbox to the route's host-local parent-route inbox, exactly as
it already maps the reply-log path, so every mention - bare path, listing,
and handled/ acknowledgement - lands host-local.

Both rewrites also become plain assignments, because a quoted substitution
nested inside a double-quoted printf argument leaks literal quotes into
the replacement text on stock macOS bash. The lifecycle suite pins the
corrected render both directions against the real seed, provisioning,
and delivery route, sharing one fixture value between the render truth
and the delivery truth.

Closes #5012

* no-mistakes(document): document remote charter's host-local steering inbox

* feat: route Lavish feedback directly to owning workers (#5099)

* feat(procevent): route worker-owned Lavish rounds

* no-mistakes(review): drop duplicate artifact field from task-owned registration

* no-mistakes(review): post worker reply once, fix ring label, keep re-arm atomic

* no-mistakes(review): keep worker board owned until terminal round acknowledged

* no-mistakes(review): refuse every retirement of an open worker-owned round

* no-mistakes(review): use real lavish reply flag, isolate reply generations

* no-mistakes(review): drop .posted marker for best-effort reply posting

* no-mistakes(review): consume staged reply after listener setup, refuse orphaned captures

* no-mistakes(review): require a reachable owner, redeliver open rounds, roll back failed re-arms

* no-mistakes(review): re-arm only to acknowledge an open round

* no-mistakes(review): conclude only a still-open terminal round

* no-mistakes(review): record the acknowledgement before retiring the board

* no-mistakes(review): retain the registration across a conclude, qualify terminal docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document worker-owned Lavish round lifecycle

* fix(bin): fit pull observation within the contribution poll budget (#5107)

* fix(bin): reserve contribution observation budget

* no-mistakes(review): Strengthen slow-read regression test to exceed the poll budget

* feat(bin): add idempotent inbox capture, replies, receipts, and readiness JSON (#5103)

* feat(bin): add idempotent inbox orders, receipts, replies, and readiness

Let a caller supply a request id when publishing a captain inbox note so a
retry returns the original note instead of creating a second one, including
across the crash window between save and wake announcement. Separate saved
from announced so a failed wake is repairable without enqueueing again.
Add bounded receipts JSON with omission disclosure, a durable primary reply
against a note id, and a read-only readiness projection that can say
unknown instead of inferring liveness from a lock file.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(bin): honest inbox announce, reply cursor, and readiness verdict

* fix(bin): resolve ready from lock-holder ancestry; drop lock status --json

Remove the extra JSON surface from fm-lock.sh so its human status still
always exits zero. Have the readiness projection classify the inspected
home from the lock-holder pid via fm-harness.sh ancestry, with an explicit
FM_SUPERVISION_MODEL still winning and an unknown model when there is no
holder. Prove the yes path when that ancestry names a known harness.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden inbox announce, receipts reads, and reply sequence cursor

* no-mistakes(document): Note read-only lock inspection in scripts inventory

* no-mistakes(lint): Pass missing id argument to malformed-reply test printf

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Co-authored-by: cliflacata-svg <304148223+cliflacata-svg@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): stop harness footer rows below a composer from reading as pending text (#5118)

* fix(composer): stop a harness footer row from reading as a composer holding text

A harness draws its own furniture below the composer - a user statusLine, a
permission-mode hint - and the cursorless "bottom-most shape wins" rule looks
exactly there. `→` (U+2192) is Cursor's prompt glyph but ordinary text
everywhere else, so a statusLine opening with `→` was selected as a bare
composer, swallowed the hint row beneath it as wrapped input, and answered
`pending` on a visibly empty pane. `fm_task_inbox_ring` defers on exactly that
verdict, and `bin/fm-watch.sh`'s re-ring calls the same function, so the first
doorbell and every retry were skipped and the worker never saw the steer.

Measured live on 2026-09-20: three of five Claude Code 2.1.236 worker panes on
Herdr 0.8.0 had genuinely empty composers and every one of them was refused.

A separator pair that closed over a bare agent-glyph row is a proven composer
container, so the contiguous non-blank rows below its closing rule are that
composer's footer and are no longer composer candidates. The demotion is bounded
by all three of its own preconditions: a blank row ends the zone, a pair that
closed over no glyph row demotes nothing, and a shape with no separator pair at
all (Cursor's half-block rules) is untouched. Real unsubmitted text in that same
composer, including a stray SGR mouse report left by a click in the pane, still
reads `pending`.

Pinned by two portable regressions and by a new cursorless arm on the live
composer-matrix guard, which re-reads each harness's already-proven-idle pane
the way every non-tmux backend reads it and fails naming the harness and
version when that read is `pending`.

* no-mistakes(review): make composer footer-zone demotion shape-independent

* no-mistakes(review): make footer-zone demotion refuse-only and drop rescan

* no-mistakes(lint): quote probe-absent sentinel to clear ShellCheck SC2100

---------

Co-authored-by: Koen Muller <koen@catapult.nl>

* feat(bin): append optional home-local include to briefs (#5115)

Co-authored-by: guanchengh-lgtm <271917158+guanchengh-lgtm@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): report a branch with no validation run as absent instead of an unreadable runs table (#5114)

* fix(bin): stop misreading a no-run branch as an unreadable runs table

Defect: when `no-mistakes axi status`'s overview is truncated (a task's
own branch has zero rows among the shown ones), fm_nm_select_run's
Python fallback derived the repo identity for its direct SQLite query
from a `repo: <path>` line it expected in the overview text. The real
CLI never emits that line, truncated or not (see the genuine capture at
tests/captures/no-mistakes-v1.70.1/overview.toon, which has only
`count:`/`runs[...]:`), so the lookup always failed and reported
"unreadable runs table" for a task that simply has no run on its
branch. On a fleet with many concurrent runs, every idle-branch task
hits the truncated-overview path routinely, so this fired every few
minutes and drowned genuine unreadable/blocked verdicts in noise.

Fix: derive the repo identity from the task worktree path instead,
which is exactly the value `no-mistakes` records as a repo's
`working_path` (confirmed against the existing capped-overview test
fixtures, which already register repos by worktree path). A worktree
path that is not absolute cannot be matched and still reads as
unreadable rather than being guessed at. Also raise the reader's
SQLite busy timeout from 1s to 30s so ordinary lock contention on a
busy fleet cannot masquerade as an unreadable database.

Safety: every other verdict byte-for-byte unchanged - the repo lookup
still requires exactly one matching row (a genuinely corrupt or
mismatched repos table still reports unreadable, per the existing
`repo` failure-mode test), the branch query and row validation are
untouched, and a zero-row result for the branch still flows through
the same recursive re-parse that already turns an empty `runs[0]{...}`
table into `absent`. Added a regression test
(test_capped_overview_without_repo_line_and_no_runs_reports_absent)
that reproduces the real overview shape - capped, zero rows for the
task's branch, no `repo: ` line - and asserts the crew state falls
through to the pane/busy verdict instead of reporting unknown or
"unreadable". Full fm-crew-state.test.sh suite passes unchanged
otherwise.

* fix: recovered same-branch inventory awk misreads empty result as unreadable

fm_nm_select_run's deep SQLite reader rebuilds a `count:`/`runs[...]:`
overview and re-runs it through the same awk selection pass. When that
rebuilt inventory has zero rows for the branch, the row-matching loop never
executes, so its counters (`seen`) stay at awk's uninitialized empty string
while `expected` and `shown` are plain strings parsed from the header text.
Comparing an uninitialized value against a non-numeric string uses string
comparison, so "" != "0" is true, and the END block takes the "unreadable
runs table" branch instead of falling through to the correct "absent"
verdict for a branch with genuinely zero runs.

Coerce the affected END comparisons with `+0` so they are always numeric,
matching seen/expected/shown/total regardless of whether awk classified
them as strings or numeric strings. A truncated or genuinely malformed
inventory still differs numerically and still reports unreadable.

* no-mistakes(review): bound capped-overview inventory reader and canonicalize worktree lookup

* no-mistakes(review): match recorded repo path first, tolerate duplicate spellings

* no-mistakes(review): revert repo lookup to exact working_path match

* no-mistakes(document): note state-db inventory read under crew-state nm timeout

* fix(bin): require a non-draft pull request before a PR-based done report (#5141)

* fix(bin): require a non-draft pull request before a PR-based done report

A PR-based ship could report done, and merge monitoring could be armed, while the pull request was still a draft. A draft cannot be merged, so the poll waited for an event that could not occur and nobody was asked to merge.

The PR-based definitions of done now require reading the pull request back from the forge and confirming it is not a draft, and a lane that deliberately holds a draft declares a wait instead of done.
bin/fm-pr-check.sh refuses to arm merge monitoring on a draft, naming the draft state, and treats an unreadable draft state as before.
The draft reading now lives in bin/fm-pr-lib.sh and bin/fm-pr-merge.sh uses it, with its refusal to merge a draft unchanged.

Closes #4757

* fix(review): Skip arm-time draft refusal when fm-pr-merge records metadata

* fix: support quota-axi schema 6 snapshots (#4904)

* fix(bin): accept quota-axi schema 6 snapshots keyed by provider + accountKey

quota-axi 0.1.47 emits schemaVersion 6 once a provider expands to more
than one account: every provider row carries an accountKey and one
provider id may appear on several rows. fm_quota_json_valid accepted
only schema 5 with unique provider ids, so fm-dispatch-resolve.sh,
fm-quota-choose.sh, and fm-procevent-quota.sh all rejected the live
snapshot and quota-informed dispatch was dead against the current tool.

- bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: the validator accepts schema 6 with
  accountKey required on every row and uniqueness on
  provider + accountKey; schema 5 keeps its exact rules. FM_QUOTA_ROW_JQ
  is the one join every consumer uses: schema 5 binds by provider alone,
  schema 6 binds to the row keyed by the candidate's Pi lane, else the
  provider's default row, else no row (unmeasured, never blocked, never
  by position or summed across accounts).
- bin/fm-quota-choose.sh: accepts schema 6 JSON and the TOON accountKey
  column, and joins through the shared function.
- bin/fm-dispatch-resolve.sh and bin/fm-procevent-quota.sh: join through
  the shared function; an expanded provider with no row for the
  candidate's account is reported as such.
- tests: schema 6 fixtures shaped like the real snapshot, each paired
  with a schema 5 case on the same path; every new case fails on the
  previous scripts and passes now.
- docs: the two sentences naming the row join describe the schema 6 key.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix native Codex quota and expanded provider watches

* no-mistakes(review): Align native Codex account matching across dispatch paths

* no-mistakes(document): Align quota documentation with account-aware snapshots

* no-mistakes(document): Align quota dispatch documentation with account matching

* fix(bin): keep CI lint and the quota watch test portable

- bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: FM_QUOTA_ROW_JQ is read only by the scripts
  that source this library, so full-mode ShellCheck reported SC2034 on
  the assignment; mark it alongside the existing SC2016 disable.
- tests/fm-procevent-quota.test.sh: the schema 6 provider-watch
  assertions used rg, which CI runners do not install, so the case
  failed with 'rg: command not found' rather than on behavior; use grep
  like the rest of the file.

* no-mistakes(document): Documented schema-version account-row compatibility

* test: fix Claude session-start drain live E2E (#5165)

* test: repair Claude live auto-arm regression

* no-mistakes(review): Assert SessionStart digest completeness within its hook_response event

* no-mistakes(document): Consolidate Claude live verification references

* ci: pin the no-mistakes required check to v1.80.1 (#5195)

Roll the shared require-no-mistakes action to the tagged v1.80.1 SHA and grant pull-requests: read so the check can read PR bodies.

* fix(bin): retain Pi watcher predecessor to stop false down alarms (#5174)

* fix: preserve Pi watcher ownership across session replacement

* no-mistakes(document): Scope Pi predecessor retention away from omp

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed all three failing checks; only one was code-caused. (ci-3, genuine) Stock macOS Bash snapshot compatibility: `tests/fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh` failed the macOS Bash 3.2 `bash -n` parse sweep with `line 4265: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '`. I built GNU Bash 3.2.0 from source locally and reproduced it. Root cause: the PR added a comment containing an apostrophe (`// Replacement shutdown deliberately retains module 2's established arm until`) inside a quoted here-document (`<<'EOF'`) nested inside a `$(...)` command substitution. Bash 3.2 has a parser bug (fixed in later bash) where an unmatched single quote inside such a here-doc body is treated as opening a shell quote and never closed, aborting the whole file parse. The base commit parses cleanly under Bash 3.2, confirming this PR introduced the break. Minimal fix: reworded the comment to remove the apostrophe (`... retains the established module-2 arm until`), preserving meaning. Verified `bin/fm-lint.sh --list-files` (the 6 changed shell files) now all pass `/tmp/bash-3.2/bash -n`; Bash 5 also parses. (ci-1, infrastructure) Behavior portable serial 8: GitHub API shows the `Run portable serial shard 8` step conclusion=success; only `Upload portable serial shard 8 timing artifact` failed with `Failed to FinalizeArtifact ... (403) Forbidden`. This is a transient artifact-service/cancellation failure, not a test or code failure. No change. (ci-2, infrastructure) Lint 1: fetched the job log via the GitHub API; it ends with `##[error]The runner has received a shutdown signal...` then exit 143. The step was cancelled mid-run, not a ShellCheck finding. Independently ran `bin/fm-lint.sh --partition 1of2 --telemetry ...` locally with pinned ShellCheck 0.11.0 and actionlint 1.7.12: exited rc=0 (no findings). No change. The only code change is the apostrophe removal in tests/fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh; no other files modified

* fix(bin): allow cleanup of windowless legacy task records (#5236)

* fix(bin): retire windowless leftovers and stop claiming a Pi daemon teardown

Catch-up correctly refuses while a leftover task record has no status file.
Cleanup used to deadlock on those same records when they also had no spawn_gen and no window, so they lingered and wedged every later away-mode return. Teardown now treats a windowless leftover as a missing-endpoint legacy record, and stop reports that no daemon terminal was running when none was launched.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Narrow windowless teardown exception to tmux legacy leftovers

* no-mistakes(review): Validate windowless leftover identity via shared endpoint validator

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse windowless leftovers carrying other backends' endpoint identity

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify windowless teardown retry documentation

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* ci: exempt kunchenguid from the no-mistakes required check (#5256)

* fix(bin): surface launches parked on an interactive prompt as not-started (#5250)

* fix: surface parked launch prompts as not started

* no-mistakes(document): docs: record launch-prompt busy backstop classification

* no-mistakes(document): docs: align tail40 and rendered-text comments with launch-prompt backstop

* fix: record away posture immediately on /afk (#5260)

* feat(afk): make /afk itself the go with a same-turn record write

Collapse the propose-then-confirm away entry into one 'enter' step that
writes state/.afk-contract immediately and prints the announcement and
read-back after the record exists, never asking for a go. The retired
propose, confirm, and --proposal inputs are refused by name, and a stale
proposal left by an older version is removed rather than promoted.
Refresh and replace semantics, verbatim words, the single writer, the
never-set, and per-harness launch behavior are unchanged.

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-entry documentation evidence

* fix(bin): recognize passed-with-override as a passing outcome (#5294)

* fix(bin): map passed-with-override to done instead of unknown

no-mistakes' axi status emits outcome: passed-with-override for a run
that finished with an explicitly approved Test or CI exception. Both
bin/fm-crew-state.sh's outcome resolver and bin/fm-teardown.sh's
pre-teardown terminal-run check only matched the literal passed and
checks-passed tokens, so this outcome fell through to unknown/parked
and a finished worker awaiting merge kept getting re-alerted as stale,
while an abort race during teardown could also leave a finished run
misreported as still parked.

Map passed-with-override to the same done/terminal handling as a
clean passed in both places.

* fix(document): Replace stale outcome mapping with authoritative pointer

* fix(ci): Fixed a pre-existing mock-clock race in tests/fm-contributions.test.sh by advancing time only during the serial issue read. Reproduced the exact CI failure before fixing it. Forced-race replay, all 38 contribution scenarios, scoped ShellCheck, Bash syntax, and diff checks pass. Only the test fixture changed; CI rerun remains with the outer executor

* fix: clean up workers after their pull requests land (#5317)

* fix: close landed workers from supervision in both postures and at return

During the 2026-09-22 away window every exemption worker whose pull request
had merged was left sitting for nine hours. The supervision branch received
the stale wake, the merge-landed check, and the hourly inactive-outcome row
for each of them, ran the recovery playbook, found nothing to recover, and
reported "no further action". The branch prompt granted ordinary teardown of
a confirmed-landed task without ever naming the moment or the command, and
the playbook has no landed exit, so the stale path ended at "nothing to
recover". The return brief then listed only blockers, decisions, and the
latest five routine outcomes, so the landed workers stayed invisible after
the captain came back.

- bin/fm-branch-prompt.sh: name the merge-landed wake, and any later stale,
  inactive-outcome, or heartbeat row on a done task with a merged PR, as the
  moment to claim the lease and run bin/fm-teardown.sh with no flags; a
  refusal is reported, never forced or worked around. Add teardown to the
  handling tool list.
- stuck-crewmate-recovery: a landed worker is not a recovery case; point at
  the ordinary teardown owner for each actor.
- bin/fm-afk-return.sh: render a "Landed, cleanup due" section from durable
  records only (a live task record whose recorded PR carries the
  merge-notification marker), between could-not-fix and handled, without
  holding the gate; the afk skill's return step closes each listed task
  through ordinary teardown once the check clears.
- tests: pin the prompt rule in fm-branch-supervision and the brief section
  in fm-afk-return through the real marker writer.

* no-mistakes(document): Document landed-task cleanup ownership

* fix: surface green no-mistakes PRs awaiting merge (#5327)

* fix(bin): surface a green no-mistakes PR still in ci merge monitoring

A green PR could sit unreported because neither the worker nor the
supervisor could observe checks-green while the ci step kept monitoring
for the merge.

Supervisor read: fm_nm_select_run's capped-overview inventory reader looked
the repository up by the task worktree path, but no-mistakes registers a
repository once by its main clone path and resolves every linked worktree
to it, so on every task copy of a busy repo the lookup matched no row and
each read reported "complete same-branch run inventory unreadable". Key the
lookup on the overview's own top-level `repo:` line, which every axi
release emits as the resolved working_path.

Even with a readable run, the ci-log classifier treated "base branch
advanced ..., re-arming CI monitor timeout" as not-ready. The monitor logs
a checks state only when it changes and a base advance does not clear
readiness, so a green PR read as still validating for as long as main kept
advancing. Stop treating that line as a marker, matching no-mistakes' own
ci-log parser, and name the run's PR URL in the held-for-merge reading so
the existing inactive-outcome path can act on it without a worker report.

Worker contract: `axi status` never reports checks-passed while the ci
step monitors for merge, so the definition of done no longer makes a
status poll the wait for the next gate or outcome; the drive call's own
return is the green signal, reattached with `no-mistakes axi run` after a
bounded return.

* no-mistakes(review): read the full ci log when checking checks-green

* no-mistakes(review): correct stale ci log tail wording in docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document checks-green supervisor fallback

* fix: derive Lavish polling route from board session (#5334)

* fix: derive Lavish polling server from its board session

* no-mistakes(document): Document session-derived Lavish polling

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Lavish routing verification claims

* fix(bin): stop secondmate relaunch failing when watcher scratch files vanish (#4900)

* fix(bin): ignore vanished state scratch files on secondmate relaunch

Relaunch refused when find(1) exited non-zero while listing a secondmate
home's state directory. A live watcher can delete scratch files between
readdir and processing, which is not evidence that child *.meta records
are unreadable.

Prove the directory is listable from its mode and keep the existing
readable-meta loop as the child-record guarantee. Fixes #4765.

* no-mistakes(review): Skip chmod-000 unlistable-state relaunch test when running as root

* fix(bin): stop each keyed answer from re-waking this home (#4907)

* fix(bin): treat home-owned status closes as already read

Self-announced bookkeeping appends now record their exact byte ranges.
Later drains and signal scans skip those ranges, so two distinct
--resolve-key answers after an OPEN DECISIONS fold do not each wake the
supervisor. Worker-authored lines outside that ledger still signal.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep owned closes in unread status; lock ledger writes

* no-mistakes(review): Drop fold-lag wake suppression so folded worker decisions still wake

* no-mistakes(review): Require real owned growth before ledger marks status seen

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify home-appends ledger scope versus UNREAD STATUS

* no-mistakes(review): Restore fold-lag path, drop owned-range filters, fix test

* no-mistakes(review): Align ledger docs and scope ledger to wake path only

* no-mistakes(review): Restore stranded historical-annotation test comment to its function

* no-mistakes(review): Retire the home-appends lock alongside its ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Note ledger's lock-helper dependency in classify library

* no-mistakes(review): Append-and-coalesce home-appends ledger; fix stamped-line assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Drop redundant empty-span branch; make owned test pin ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Document covers' ascending-order dependency on home-appends ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Note owned-append skip in watcher signal-scan comment

* fix: deliver failed public follow-ups with updated AXI floors (#5350)

* chore(bin): raise tasks-axi, quota-axi, and lavish-axi floors to latest

Raise the minimum versions to tasks-axi 0.2.6, quota-axi 0.1.50, and
lavish-axi 0.1.77, pin CI's tasks-axi install to 0.2.6, and move the
floor-boundary test fixtures to the new versions.

tasks-axi 0.2.6 makes a failed relation deliverable for a promised-final
expecting pr-merged, so add the regression test: a bound work that ends
failed reports its honest outcome text through fm-public-followup-emit.sh,
consume marks the commitment ready, and deliver posts that text exactly
once.

Also make two hang-guard tests in fm-backlog-atomicity portable to hosts
without coreutils timeout, and stop an installed herdr from leaking into
the secondmate-liveness husk classifier test.

* no-mistakes(review): drop out-of-scope bounded_run hang-guard helper from atomicity test

* no-mistakes(review): pin quota-axi floor at 0.1.49 across fixtures

* no-mistakes(document): Document failed public-followup delivery behavior

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated quota-axi floor and all 0.1.49 fixtures to 0.1.51, corrected bootstrap boundaries to 0.1.51/0.1.52/0.1.50, and bumped the bearings lavish-axi stub to 0.1.77. Bearings, quota procevent, quota chooser, startup budget, and bootstrap floor coverage passed; the full bootstrap suite exceeded the 240-second local command limit after relevant checks passed. git diff --check passed

* fix(bin): refuse ship done: when the named head exists only in the worker copy (#4878)

* fix(bin): refuse ship done: when the named head lives only in the worker copy

A ship done: is not current-state done until that exact commit is reachable
outside the disposable copy. The check tests the named head, not whether
some branch moved.

* fix(bin): gate CI-ready ship done: on named-head reachability, not handoff

Keep no-mistakes' first done: as the pipeline handoff, apply the same shared
check when registering a PR and when a secondmate publishes ledger-first,
treat a recorded merged PR as landed after prune, and name the PR head
instead of scanning free-text SHAs.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind named-head gate to recorded PR and forge heads

* no-mistakes(review): Gate direct-PR forge heads and keep pending ledger deliveries

* no-mistakes(review): Align worker done wording, test mapping, pending-retry test

* no-mistakes(test): Raise watcher test time limit to stop load flake

* no-mistakes(document): Restore ledger-path fact and name named-head gate coverage

* ci: re-attest named-head ship-done gate for a fresh serial-3 verdict

* no-mistakes(review): Simplify local-only gate, gate keyed done lines, document recovery

* no-mistakes(document): Name fm-crew-state among named-head gate callers

* fix(bin): ring a proven-idle secondmate before raising a wake-loop stall alarm (#5204)

* fix(bin): ring a proven-idle secondmate before a wake-loop stall alarm

A leftover foreign-queue row on an idle, alive, ring-safe mate is still drainable in that home. Ring once, reset the observation interval, and keep the parent alarm for unknown, busy, or still-frozen rows.

* no-mistakes(review): Mark drain steer with from-firstmate fire-and-forget carrier

* test(watch-arm): size re-arm waits off the real loaded recovery cost (#5335)

The re-arm recovery cases judged "the watcher stayed live instead of
surfacing recovery" with fixed budgets below what a real stale-lock
recovery costs on a contended host: the arm's default 10s confirmation
deadline, a start helper that returned after about 4s whether or not the
arm had confirmed its watcher, and an 80-poll exit wait.
A changed-suite run beside other suites starves the recovery's many
short-lived processes while this suite's sleeping poll loops keep their
pace, so a watcher still surfacing its recovery read as one that stayed
live (issue #3793).
The original 0.25s window after confirmation was widened to 80 polls in
#3837, which left the same race at a larger size.

Following the CONTRIBUTING.md fixture-budget rule, the re-arm helper now
gives the arm an explicit 30s confirmation budget and waits for its
confirmation or exit within a ceiling that outlasts it, and every wait on
a re-armed watcher uses one named iteration-counted ceiling that outlasts
the same budget.
A passing case returns as soon as the arm reports or exits, and a watcher
that never surfaces its recovery still fails.

A new case delays every mktemp and readlink the re-armed watcher runs
after it publishes its beacon, so its first poll and exit take about 13s
on any host.
It fails with the reported symptom on the previous budgets and passes now.
No bin/ change.

* fix: stop watchers reliably during blocked polls (#5362)

* fix(bin): let one TERM always stop the watcher on bash 5.2

Bash 5.2 runs a pending trap from the parser entry of the next command
substitution it expands, where the trap body is parsed as the inside of
that substitution and fails ("trap: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking
for matching `)'") or is dropped silently, consuming the signal. The
watcher's `trap 'exit 1' HUP INT TERM` could therefore ignore a TERM and
keep polling while its stopper waited: the triage suite's reap waited
forever (CI jobs cancelled at 30 minutes), and the arm's signal path and
the away-mode daemon's shutdown wait for the watcher the same way.
Bash 5.3 fixed the parser; 5.2 is the stock bash on Ubuntu 24.04.

HUP and TERM now keep bash's native fatal-signal handling, which runs the
EXIT trap (watcher_cleanup) and exits on bash 3.2, 5.2, and 5.3. INT keeps
its trap because bash ignores a direct SIGINT while a child runs. The
check-spawn deferral window no longer contains a command substitution.

The triage suite's reap is now bounded and fails the case within 10s with
process evidence instead of hanging the job, and a new regression test
proves TERM stops a watcher blocked inside a poll's pane capture and still
releases its lock and records an acknowledgeable stop.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify watcher stop-signal documentation

* fix: submit stuck inbox doorbells instead of skipping them (#5374)

* fix(bin): submit our own stuck doorbell instead of skipping every later ring

* no-mistakes(review): Confirm and retry Enter once on stuck-doorbell submit

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify doorbell retry and pending-composer documentation

* feat: add opt-in fleet activity ledger (#5375)

* feat(bin): add the opt-in fleet activity ledger

Homes that create config/fleet-ledger get an append-only JSONL file,
state/fleet-ledger.jsonl, recording task.dispatched, task.status,
task.merged, and task.cleaned_up so outside tools can follow a fleet.
With the flag absent each producer does one file test and nothing else.
docs/fleet-ledger.md owns the record contract and its documented limits.

* no-mistakes(review): Record task.status text verbatim after the first colon

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify fleet ledger status and setup documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed a timing race in tests/fm-pi-branch-extension.test.sh: the replacement-wake test now waits for the prompt to start before releasing it. The focused test passed twice, and git diff --check passed

* fix: validate public follow-up deliverables and wake on rejection (#5352)

* fix(bin): format, validate, and surface public-followup deliverables

brief pre-fills report_path=data/<work-id>/report.md and states the accepted
format of every value it cannot know instead of a bare <value> placeholder.
fm-public-followup-emit.sh refuses a deliverable tasks-axi would refuse, in
both the direct and staged destinations, naming the key, value, and format.
consume records the specific deliverable, outcome, or missing key behind a
tasks-axi refusal, and each refusal wakes the owning home once through the
existing relay poll.

* no-mistakes(review): refuse emits missing a required deliverable in both destinations

* no-mistakes(review): require promised deliverables and keep rejections recoverable

* no-mistakes(review): mirror tasks-axi's canonical pull request URL rule

* no-mistakes(review): keep a rejection wake whose line cannot be read

* no-mistakes(review): key emit-time rules on the promise, not the outcome

* no-mistakes(review): bound deliverable keys and values as tasks-axi does

* no-mistakes(review): state rejection wakes as at-least-once and pin it

* no-mistakes(review): enforce the promised contract tasks-axi holds at emit

* no-mistakes(review): stop inferring a staged promise from its outcome

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh public follow-up documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both CI flakes. Watcher cleanup is now installed before singleton acquisition, preventing timeout races from leaving stale locks while preserving recovery-failure evidence. Bearings render fixtures now publish a valid isolated Lavish session store and retire each listener after rendering, eliminating false unowned-source races. Verified with checkpoint stress, fm-watch-checkpoint, fm-watcher-lock, repeated fm-bearings-board-render runs, project lint, syntax checks, and git diff checks

* Revert unrelated CI auto-fix edits to the watcher and bearings board test

The CI step's automatic repair changed bin/fm-watch.sh and
tests/fm-bearings-board-render.test.sh to chase two intermittent CI
failures that also occur on main and are not part of this change. Restore
both files so this branch carries only the public-followup deliverable fix.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse a repeated --deliverable key at emit argument parsing

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify public-followup validation and rejection-wake documentation

* feat: add Devin CLI crewmate and scout adapter (#5380)

* Add verified Devin CLI worker adapter

* no-mistakes(review): Drop Devin resolver refusal and launch marker

* no-mistakes(review): Verify devin in bootstrap, fold kind rule, update docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document Devin sidecar, resume, and worker-only facts

* no-mistakes(document): Document Devin interrupt, liveness anchor, composer signals

* fix(control): never pair Devin interrupt presses on an idle agent

A fast double Escape on an idle Devin opens its /revert picker, where Enter
reverts file changes. fm-control now sends the second press only after the
first renders Devin's 'esc again to interrupt' armed hint, never sooner than
0.5 s, closes a revert picker a mistimed press opened with one Escape, and
refuses to type the exit command while that picker is open. An unarmed
interrupt reports cancel=not-running and leaves the busy record untouched.

* fix(devin): disable Claude hook import and commit attribution for workers

The per-task Devin config now forces read_config_from.claude=false, so a
worker no longer runs the user's or project's Claude Code hooks (including
Herdr's Claude agent-state hook), and attribution=false, so Devin adds no
Co-Authored-By trailer or Generated-with line to commits and PRs.

* test(devin): extend live guard and record Herdr and revert-picker evidence

The credentialed live guard now fails if an imported Claude Code hook runs,
if the worker's commit carries Devin attribution, if an idle interrupt sends
more than one press or opens the revert picker, or if an open picker lets
exit through or is closed with a revert. The Devin reference, agent-control
doc, and verification records carry the 2026-09-22 tmux and Herdr lab results,
including the Herdr exit refusal.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Devin documentation links and lifecycle guidance

---------

Co-authored-by: Denis Beliaev <battler73@yandex.ru>

* fix(bin): recognize passed-with-skips as a passing outcome (#5322)

fm-crew-state classifies the no-mistakes outcome 'passed-with-skips' as
unknown, so a finished worker awaiting merge is re-alerted as stale. The
same blind spot lets fm-teardown's pre-teardown terminal-run check refuse
a legitimate abort race that lands on this outcome.

Map passed-with-skips to done in crew-state resolution, keeping the
skipped publication/CI verification visible in the detail rather than
reporting a clean pass, and recognize it as terminal during teardown.

* fix(bin): refuse unavailable backend adapters before sourcing (#5382)

* fix: refuse missing backend adapter before source

* no-mistakes(review): Gate backend precheck under stock Bash

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify adapter precheck docs

* no-mistakes(lint): Suppress intentional child Bash ShellCheck warning

* test: repair base-red liveness, export-DOM, and wake-queue self-tests (#5338)

* fix(test): repair tmux liveness and calm follow-up loaded_off regressions

Both self-tests fail on untouched main on a host whose coreutils are a
multicall binary and whose Chrome has no pre-warmed profile, and each failure
masks the other's file.

tests/fm-tmux-agent-liveness.test.sh - the stand-in harness processes were
symlinks to the host's `sleep`. A single-purpose `sleep` runs happily under
another name, but a multicall coreutils binary (uutils or busybox) resolves its
applet from argv[0]: `claude-link -> sleep` invoked under the harness name runs
the wrong applet and exits immediately, so no foreground process exists and
every positive case reads not-alive ("last verdict for liveness:agent was
missing (expected alive); title=sh comms=[sh ]"). Build a dedicated spinner as
the stand-in target, exactly the way the version-string case already builds its
executable, and require the fallback target to demonstrably survive the rename
before using it. Every assertion is untouched; the stand-in identity signal is
unchanged (the kernel still records the symlink name as the executable
identity).

tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh - render_export_dom pinned a brand-new
`--user-data-dir` per attempt. On Google Chrome for Testing 151.0.7922.34 that
pristine profile makes Chrome's first-run initialization never complete: the
browser and its renderers start, but --dump-dom never returns, so all three
bounded attempts end exit=0 timed_out=yes bytes=0 and the DOM assertions never
run ("could not render calm-mode HTML export DOM"). Chrome's own profile
creation under a fresh HOME renders the same document in about a second, so the
helper now gives Chrome a private per-attempt HOME instead of the explicit
profile flag. Each attempt still gets an isolated profile, and every DOM
assertion is unchanged.

Root-cause evidence: a pristine --user-data-dir with `--headless=new
--dump-dom` had not returned after 150s, while the same command with an empty
HOME and no --user-data-dir returned the full DOM in ~1s, and reusing an
already-populated profile also returned it in ~1s. The render failure masked
the rest of the file: with it repaired, the Pi follow-up loaded_off case passes
unmodified against an installed @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent package.

These two failures block downstream validation of every lane on hosts with
multicall coreutils or a fresh Chrome profile.

Verification:
- timeout 300 bash tests/fm-tmux-agent-liveness.test.sh -> exit 0, 16 assertions ok
- timeout 700 bash tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh -> exit 0, 13 assertions ok,
  including the Pi operational follow-up loaded_off case
- bash -n and shellcheck clean on both touched files
- rest of tests/: bin/fm-test-run.sh --all bounded by timeout 900 completed 17 files with 0 failures (fm-afk-contract.test.sh through fm-backend-herdr-launcher-workspace-e2e.test.sh), then the bound cut off the 18th (fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh, a real-herdr-gated lab test) with no failure recorded

* fix(test): give wake-queue observation checkpoints the alerting ceiling

tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh's secondmate stall case runs bounded foreground
watcher checkpoints whose job is to record an observation, with the alerting
checkpoint that follows asserting the stall. A checkpoint's exit publishes a
downtime marker, and the next checkpoint consumes it only by reaching the end of
the watcher's poll loop, where the recovery surfacing runs after the stall tick;
the observation itself is recorded by that same stall tick. On a loaded host a
1s ceiling sits under the cost of that iteration (which includes a pane capture
in the active-turn gate), so the observation was never recorded, the downtime
marker stayed pending, and the alerting checkpoint surfaced
`check: rearm-resurface` instead of the stall it asserts:

  not ok - a foreign queue with no progress did not alert: check: rearm-resurface
  not ok - a frozen reprovisioned queue generation was hidden: check: rearm-resurface

Give the observation checkpoints that feed a later alert the same 4s ceiling the
file already documents for alerting checkpoints. The ceiling is only a bound - a
checkpoint still returns on its first actionable wake - so no assertion is
weakened, and the quiet windows get longer, not shorter.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: correct export-DOM Chrome render root cause

* no-mistakes(review): Isolate Chrome profile on macOS, dedupe tmux CC_BIN lookup

* chore: re-trigger fork workflow approval for triage

---------

Co-authored-by: Captain <blackxwhite88@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: kunchenguid <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: keep watcher status classification bounded to new log spans (#5383)

* fix(bin): classify a status span without re-folding the whole log

A watcher poll could take minutes, so its liveness beacon aged past the
guard's 300s grace and the Stop auto-arm reported the watcher down. On the
main home, cycles ended with beacon_age 91-235s while healthy and 534-706s
while the laptop was CPU-starved.

Cause: whenever a newly appended status span held a keyed needs-decision
or blocked line, status_span_first_actionable_record re-read and re-folded
the ENTIRE log to decide whether that opening was still live, forking
several subshells per line. On a remote second mate's mirrored parent
channel (1.2MB, ~2300 lines) that is 13-20k subshells, about 17s per log
per classification when idle, paid by every signal and heartbeat scan.

Nothing regressed recently: subshell counts per classification were
20,272 from #3268 (2026-08-29, which introduced the whole-log fold) and
13,188 from #3753 onward through HEAD. The cost grew with log size, since
parent-channel logs only grow.

Fix: fold only the captured span. An accepted opening does not depend on
earlier lines and only later lines close or supersede it, and every later
line lies inside the span, so the span fold names the same live openings
at a cost bounded by the span. Old and new classification outputs are
byte-identical across 51 span offsets of real-shaped secondmate and ship
logs.

A real-watcher regression test records every read the classification
makes through the span-reader seam and asserts none reaches before the
classified offset; it fails on the old code (5,157 bytes read from
offset 0 to classify an 84-byte span).

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify span classification and watcher regression coverage

* test: close pr-check watcher test gaps (original flake already fixed by #5362 and #4878) (#5381)

* test: fix watcher timing flakes in fm-pr-check-security

The bounded watcher's hang guard now counts only the watcher's own time: a
case marks the intervals where it holds the watcher on injected work or makes
it wait on concurrent work, and those no longer count against its budget. The
budget itself stays at main's sixty seconds. The helper also stops forcing a
one-second per-check timeout, which killed a correct merged poll whenever that
poll took longer than a second, so the watcher only retried it or exited on a
later check's wake without the merge.

The concurrent-publication case pauses the guard while its arming is in
flight, and its task now sorts before the contributions observer the arming
also registers, so the watcher stops on the poll under test before running
that unrelated fleet snapshot. The case also prints the watcher's stderr when
it fails.

The replacement case pauses the guard while the re-arm runs inside the
watcher, runs that injected arming with the fixture root every other arming
here uses, and waits on the replacement merge's process instead of a
two-second cap. Merged-poll runs retire the contributions observer before the
watcher starts, since no case here exercises it.

The returned-descendant case no longer races a four-second sleep or a TERM
landing at an arbitrary point in the watcher's idle loop: its descendant holds
until killed, and a second check in the same cycle witnesses that it was
drained and stops the watcher.

* no-mistakes(ci): Reproduced the intermittent board-render failure. Its Lavish stub listed an open session but omitted the session-state record required by the listener, so the build could race the listener’s exit. Added matching fixture state; the affected suite passed three consecutive runs, and shell syntax and diff checks passed

* Revert "no-mistakes(ci): Reproduced the intermittent board-render failure. Its Lavish stub listed an open session but omitted the session-state record required by the listener, so the build could race the listener’s exit. Added matching fixture state; the affected suite passed three consecutive runs, and shell syntax and diff checks passed"

This reverts commit 6a59859b2e2a3778f9b46faeea42d6de37468cd6.

* feat: record fleet status immediately and emit PR-ready events (#5385)

* feat: record task.pr_ready in the fleet ledger when a task PR is registered

* feat: record worker status lines in the fleet ledger as they are written

* no-mistakes(review): Keep worker status append failures and pass the resolved config to the ledger

* no-mistakes(review): Resolve relative config override before embedding in worker command

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify fleet ledger status capture timing

* test: synchronize foreign queue stall checks with watcher progress (#5386)

* test: synchronize foreign secondmate stall legs on the watcher's recorded observation

Each leg of test_secondmate_foreign_queue_stall_tracks_progress_and_alerts_once
ran the watcher under a 1s or 4s wall-clock checkpoint, but every later leg
depends on the progress observation the previous leg's watcher recorded. Under
load the watcher was killed before its first stall tick, the observation was
never written, and the next leg treated its own sighting as the first one, so
the stall alert never fired.

Run the watcher directly and end each leg on its observable outcome: the
progress marker recording the expected observation, or the watcher's own first
wake. Also move a comment orphaned above this test back to the drain liveness
test it describes.

* no-mistakes(review): Wait for full stall reset before stopping watcher leg

* test: isolate the bearings render fixture from the shared Lavish store (#5391)

The listener resolves its server from that store before it polls. Without a session for this bo…
Brings in four upstream fixes:
- kunchenguid#6192 ci: rebalance portable test groups and enforce a packing budget
- kunchenguid#6213 fix(bin): let a stale record on a reassigned slot retire records-only
- kunchenguid#6216 fix(bin): run no repository hook when core.hooksPath is empty
- kunchenguid#6240 fix(bin): keep the steering doorbell short under deep homes

Naive merge would pick a stale history merge base because fork main
carries the #11 and #14 syncs as squashes; an explicit content merge
base of b3d4133 (last upstream commit whose content fork main shared)
is used instead. Two genuine conflicts (bin/fm-teardown.sh,
docs/architecture.md) were 3-way merged: upstream kunchenguid#6213's records-only
code path survives, fork #13's claim-first semantics and endpoint-cleared
behavior are kept, and the overlapping header/doc prose keeps the fork's
newer wording. Content delta vs fork main is exactly the 22 files of
kunchenguid#6192+kunchenguid#6213+kunchenguid#6216+kunchenguid#6240 (docs/architecture.md is byte-identical to fork
main after resolution).
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[Medium risk] Adds documentation and configuration for new agent harnesses and skills.

This PR is not ready to merge until claim release, hold-sweep coverage, and provider admission are corrected and the tracked workspace graph is addressed.

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Comment thread bin/fm-claim.sh
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fm_claim_read "$path" || continue
if [ "$FM_CLAIM_HOME" = "$HOME" ] && [ "$FM_CLAIM_TASK" = "$TASK" ]; then
if rm -f -- "$path"; then

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P1 Release can erase another claim

Teardown removes a task record before calling release-task, so another home can reclaim its claim. This command checks who owns the claim and then deletes it without holding the per-target lock. If the new home claims it between those steps, this command deletes the new claim, allowing a third home to dispatch duplicate work. The release command also checks ownership before taking the lock.

Comment thread bin/fm-hold-reverify.sh
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if [ "$EXAMINED" -ge "$MAX_HOLDS" ] || budget_exhausted; then
DEFERRED=$((DEFERRED + 1))
continue

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P1 Later holds never get checked

If aged captain holds exceed FM_HOLD_REVERIFY_MAX_HOLDS, every sweep starts with the same oldest holds and defers the rest. Nothing records where the next sweep should resume. Unless someone separately removes the older holds, the deferred decisions are never re-verified, leaving the captain's list uncorrected.

Comment thread bin/fm-spawn.sh
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LANE_CAP_MODEL=$MODEL
LANE_CAP_EXCLUDE=
if [ "$RELAUNCH" -eq 1 ]; then
LANE_CAP_EXCLUDE=$ID
[ -n "$LANE_CAP_MODEL" ] || LANE_CAP_MODEL=$(fm_meta_get "$RELAUNCH_META" model)
fi
fm_provider_cap_refuse "$STATE" "$CONFIG" "$HARNESS" "$LANE_CAP_MODEL" "$LANE_CAP_EXCLUDE" || exit 1
fi
if [ "$HARNESS" = openhands ]; then
if [ -z "$MODEL" ] || [ "$MODEL" = default ]; then
if [ -n "${LLM_MODEL:-}" ]; then
MODEL=$LLM_MODEL

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P1 OpenHands bypasses provider cap

When an OpenHands spawn gets its model from LLM_MODEL, this code checks the lane cap before assigning that model to MODEL. It admits the spawn under a fallback bucket, then records the lane under the model's actual provider. Repeated spawns can exceed that provider's configured cap while each admission check passes.

Comment thread .swarm/repo-graph.json
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{
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"workspaceRoot": "/home/azureuser/.no-mistakes/worktrees/6f716179fc56/01M3TAXQ73AR44VH62HYWQ7HY8",

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P2 Private workspace state is tracked

This generated graph includes an operator's absolute workspace path and file inventory in shared repository material. That violates the repository directive not to drift from VISION.md, which says personal records must stay private to their owning home. This requirement needs to be satisfied before merging.

Context Used: If there is a VISION.md file at the root of the repo, the PR must not conflict / diverge / drift from it. If the PR description has an "Intent" section, respect that as the accepted user intent. - Do make comments if anything in the implementation ... (source)

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keenvc commented Oct 1, 2026

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This PR was opened on the upstream repo by a misconfigured pipeline push target — it is a fork-maintenance sync that only exists on keenvc/firstmate (fork main carries the #11/#14 syncs as squashes, so a fork-side branch would be a no-op against upstream main). The validated fork PR lives at keenvc/firstmate (same branch fm/fm-upstream-sync-2026-09-30-2, pushed to the fork at c69b16d3). Closing here; no upstream action is needed.

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